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Lets take it two steps further...and starting with the Adult Entertainment industry which will lead the way no matter how far the human civilization advances
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Originally posted by OmegaOwl
Ha, looks like you CAN download a car these days.
Let's take it one step further. Very soon, you will be able to download HUMANS for home-based DNA sequencing.
Originally posted by OmegaOwl
Ha, looks like you CAN download a car these days.
Take that anti-piracy PSA!
Originally posted by sirhumperdink
reply to post by winofiend
there are already 3D printers capable of printing various metals, clays, plastics, hell ive seen one that uses a big fresnel lense to print in glass using sand
thenextweb.com...
heres one that can print a house in 20 hours using something akin to concrete (3x stronger than actual concrete)
the technology is advancing at an extremely rapid pace and it probably wont be more than a few decades before theres one in every home like a washing machine or refrigerator and people will be able to prod 7uce many consumer goods in their own home for a small fraction of the cost
sure it will put millions of people out of work....... and now you understand why current economic models are fundamentally flawed and doomed to failure (its inevitable that most people are going to have their jobs automated at some time or another what happens when the corporations no longer need workers as is increasingly the case?)edit on 27-2-2013 by sirhumperdink because: (no reason given)
The only way that it would be possible not to have money is if the problem of scarcity of resources was almost entirely solved. And, the show does seem to come up with a ready answer for this: the replicator. In a world with a replicator, you wouldn’t need to do an awful lot of things which today take up people’s labour. No Chinese factories would have to make rubber chickens: you could just replicate them. No one would need to grow tea, or roast coffee beans: you could just replicate them. Ditto, I suppose, with cars, and even larger items (such as, at one point, various large containment units) could be replicated.
So this, then, must be the key to Star Trek’s economy: you could largely do with out money, if you had replicators that could magically make pretty much anything you wanted. The key would then only lie in making an artistic request, perhaps drawing things that the machine could learn to make. And, of course, since nothing can come from nothing, the replicator needs to have fuel.