Faith in humanity restored.

Nice story but...

Faith in humanity or technology?

It took humans to make this but it will undoubtedly also be used to do harm as all technology seems to go that way. For example...This same technology has already been used to make a gun.

I have more faith in technology than humans. And I am not even a big technology proponent.

Peace

Originally posted by jude11

Faith in humanity restored.

Nice story but...

Faith in humanity or technology?

It took humans to make this but it will undoubtedly also be used to do harm as all technology seems to go that way. For example...This same technology has already been used to make a gun.

I have more faith in technology than humans. And I am not even a big technology proponent.

Peace

It took humans to design the technology. Not all humans are bad just the greedy ones.

Science. Science. Mother F**king Science.

I got a little teary eyed. Damn, we've come far. When it comes to science, we done good. But a quick question since I don't have much time, will her bones grow differently with the suit on? If so, will they become normal?

And of course, that is some nice arm-or she has on.

Wow. Soon they'll be printing hearing aids and pacemakers! This story was awesome thanks for posting

Originally posted by buster2010

Originally posted by jude11

Faith in humanity restored.

Nice story but...

Faith in humanity or technology?

It took humans to make this but it will undoubtedly also be used to do harm as all technology seems to go that way. For example...This same technology has already been used to make a gun.

I have more faith in technology than humans. And I am not even a big technology proponent.

Peace

It took humans to design the technology. Not all humans are bad just the greedy ones.

Really? Humans designed the technology? Nice to know. In fact I said the exact thing in my post that you quoted.

The 3d printer wasn't designed to be in the medical field first and foremost. That's just a bi-product. Same as it wasn't designed to build a gun...another off shoot.

So to have faith in anything, it would be the printer itself.

If it was specifically designed to help kids throw a baseball again or even to walk, I would have faith in humanity a little more but this was designed for profits.

I could however concede a little and have faith in ONE human. The person who thought up the use to help this kid. Having said that tho, seeing as it's successful, how much will the next kid be charged?

If I see a story of hundreds or thousands of people being helped in this way and that it's an affordable technique that almost anyone can afford, I'll concede a little more.

And truthfully, I would like to be wrong here.

Peace

3D printing machines are so awesome. This would not have been possible in the old days of manufacturing. Now that we have the ability to own small private 3D printing machines we can print out custom designed parts at a moments notice and it costs us hardly anything. The science that allows this to happen is brilliant but the monopolistic industrialists fear this sort of technology because it puts so much power into the hands of the common consumer and allows them to do things which used to be done by massive manufacturing plants and machines that costs millions of dollars. Eventually all of us will have the ability to build so many things from 3D printed parts and many manufacturing companies will become obsolete.

But really I can't wait until we enter into the bio-mech age where we start to create truly advanced bio-mechanical replacement limbs for people like this little girl.

get technology in the right hands, miracles happen.

Thats amazing, I've been saving to buy one of the maker bots for awhile now, can't wait to see what crop out from this technology.

Wow...very cool.

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Great story!

You have to love this and 3D printing will be a forerunner to nanotechnology. This technology is amazing. As it gets more advanced we will be able to print even more body parts and medical devices. This technology will also challenge commerce in a major way.

Imagine going on vacation, seeing something you like and instead of buying it, you take a picture of it on your cell phone and take it home and 3D print it out.

What if they print a body down to the molecular level? The next question will be, how can you animate the body. I think 3D printing is a technology that will quickly change the world. The powers that be will be up in arms when people can just print a watch they like from a magazine ad.

So happy for this little girl and her family.

What a beautiful and meaningful meeting of technology and the human spirit... We can be a pretty amazing species when we put our hearts to it..Emma is a a very lucky little girl with a beautiful smile..peace,sugarcookie1

Such a story is worth a SnF, thanks for sharing it with us.

There has been several 3-D printer threads of late, and I'm beginning to do more research on it.

Like, a 3-D Printer can replicate it's own parts, or reproduce itself. It's also open source, so you are putting the creativity of the whole world into the design process. Who knows what they'll think of next?

That was wonderful. People and technology working as a unit to make human life better.

I went by the local National Guard camp today, Camp Mabry in Austin, and noticed they had added another thrownout weapon of war to their display of out-dated weapons. It as a jet fighter on a pedestal. I don't know if it helped win a war somewhere or not, probably not, it probably would be said, however, that it did its job by keeping America safe as would be the purpose for a junkyard dog.

Suppose the one or two million dollars that single aircraft cost and the millions more than kept it operational during its life span had been put into more positive aspects of American life such as education, schools, health quality art and more efficient government? Would we be in decline today still?

Why is it that most all of the countries that we defeated in World War II have fared better than us? The answer seems clear. We spent and continue to spend gigantic sums of money on defense and they spent it on proper things for their people and society and leave the policing of the world to us.

I'm actually aiming to study in programing 3d printers because I believe it's a technology that will be very popular in the future and who knows, I might be able to create very useful inventions.