General / Off-Topic The technology that will set the world free.

[lysan]

3D Printing, well it’s not a replicator from ST, however it’s a start.

We use metal printers in my company, huge expensive beasts, and they are teaching us
What they can be used for, now and in the future. With the power of the internet blue prints can be exchanged and with that ideas among people.
Today most people use polymer to print at home, however there are home applications that can print a mixture of metal and polymer.

What if you could print a strong durable object in metal? What if it was stronger than stainless steel?
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/3d-printing-doubles-strength-stainless-steel

When, and it’s just a question of when, this technology becomes affordable, all the barriers put in place
By various governments will be worthless.

Sure we are confined to smaller objects, however today we are so controlled in what we can buy that it boggles the mind.

Take replacement parts for drones, expensive and in some countries controlled, yes drone parts are controlled in some countries.
https://3dprinting.com/how-to/3d-print-drone/

As this technology improves, we the people get more freedom, because you can’t control creativity nor can you control exchange of ideas.

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Imagine this build in metal and heat resistant ceramics.
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When the materials and the printer technology reach a level wher you can make almost anything, we as humans can unleash our creativity, in energy, propulsion, art, you name it, only the knolledged of how to will be required. There is an elephant in the room, can you see it [yesnod]?

 

[Robin of Spiritwood]

Wow!

So coming Utopia, or economic collapse as all trade gets stepped on?

 

[metatheurgist]

Yeah, when this tech finally matures and becomes wide spread it's going to open some interesting avenues. It's a game changer for manufacturing.

 

[lysan]

Wow!

So coming Utopia, or economic collapse as all trade gets stepped on?

Never believed in utopias, however we need to get ready for some change. Now mass producing will not be in danger, and
If you take cars, bikes, electric tools and other components they will need an industry to make them.

However we will see some of the products going from mass production to home production.
Or someone setting up shop and produce a product in a town selling it in a small quantity.

[video=youtube_share;iAkzb1nXzwU]https://youtu.be/iAkzb1nXzwU[/video]

 

[znôrt]

we the people get more freedom, because you can’t control creativity nor can you control exchange of ideas.

intellectual property laws were invented five centuries ago to do just that.

freedom, a concept so simple and yet so complex!

 

[Zeeman]

We'll never be set free. Remember, politicians are all lawyers, with the single job that is to find ways to milk us of money and control us, ensuring that we forget that it's actually we that pay them.

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[Zak Gordon]

While we operate under old-world ideologies (Capitalism, markets, control of supply and demand etc), we are never going to be 'free'. All technology will be used by those forces to further (actually) enslave the majority for the few. It's 'just how the world works' currently.

To be truly free it is ideology put into practice first that will free us, then technology can do it's part.

For an example 3D printing is currently for the benefit of the petroleum companies (so Big Oil) as they control the oil/plastic. And we all know what a good track record of caring for humanity they show i.e. they are currently on track to kill us all, themselves included! We are stupid.

 

[Zeeman]

While we operate under old-world ideologies (Capitalism, markets, control of supply and demand etc), we are never going to be 'free'. All technology will be used by those forces to further (actually) enslave the majority for the few. It's 'just how the world works' currently.

To be truly free it is ideology put into practice first that will free us, then technology can do it's part.

For an example 3D printing is currently for the benefit of the petroleum companies (so Big Oil) as they control the plastic. And we all know what a good track record of caring for humanity they show!

This. Way too many vested interests in the old world ways for things to change any time soon. Just look at China, they'ce pretty much gone back to having an Emporer... Most countries are tightening their grip on the masses, reducing freedom (in the name of security). Because terrorists, or something...

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[Patrick_68000]

Never of freedom to consider in the materialistic consumerist model.

Always more constraints, anxieties, enslavements and dependencies.

In the best case, a pseudo freedom under surveillance and which can be removed at any time by the "elite".

The freedom cannot be acquired by the running in the material progress and in the consumption.

Unfortunately, the current model is not a progression but a regression of the humanity about the environment and our freedom

 

[Patrick_68000]

As this technology improves, we the people get more freedom, because you can’t control creativity nor can you control exchange of ideas.

Yes ! I want to make a devastating weapon to kill everyone, mainly the rich and the "elite" and also all the morons around me.

 

[lysan]

intellectual property laws were invented five centuries ago to do just that.

freedom, a concept so simple and yet so complex!

Well China disagree with that one, and as long as you don’t sell it 1:1 IP will not stop anything. Sure they will make an example once in a while but in the long run they simply can’t stop it.

We'll never be set free. Remember, politicians are all lawyers, with the single job that is to find ways to milk us of money and control us, ensuring that we forget that it's actually we that pay them.

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Well, it’s not going to change the world for everyone, however it will change one thing. You can’t control or tax everything. Let’s say I got a device, doesn’t matter what it is, and to get parts to this device I need to go to apply for a permit to import a spare part, with this technology I don’t need to ask anyone, I just get the blue print and make it.

It will take some knowledge, however most kids today can figure this out in a heart beat.
If I want a new JS I can make one with ease, today it will require an effort, but in ten years I think the technology will be much improved and we will see some changes in how things will work.

If you can get a 3D drawing you can make it.

 

[Patrick_68000]

If this machine is sold to millions of people, it will certainly be restrained in its features, as the home computers

 

[lysan]

Yes ! I want to make a devastating weapon to kill everyone, mainly the rich and the "elite" and also all the morons around me.

You don’t need a 3D printer for that, a good hardware store can supply you with all the ingredients for that evil plan [haha]

 

[lysan]

If this machine is sold to millions of people, it will certainly be restrained in its features, as the home computers

Politicians are already too late, the genie is out of the lamp, nature will always find a way, remember

 

[Patrick_68000]

You don’t need a 3D printer for that, a good hardware store can supply you with all the ingredients for that evil plan [haha]

It's not false

 

[Frank]

The easiest way to think about 3D printing is to look at a similar technology. We've have normal desktop printers now for decades. We don't have people printing their own books.

That's not to say that desktop printers haven't had a massive impact on the world, and I would imagine that these new solid printers will have the same impact. Prototyping will become faster and cheaper. There'll be printing shops on the high street for those who can't wait for stuff delivered by mail order. And there'll be enthusiasts who have their own printers after the buzz has died down and every normal person who bought one during the fad chucked their's away when they found their nozzles have clogged up due to non-use.

 

[OnePercent]

I will finally be able to 3D print my fully automatic assault rifle that doesn't break?

The easiest way to think about 3D printing is to look at a similar technology. We've have normal desktop printers now for decades. We don't have people printing their own books.

That's not to say that desktop printers haven't had a massive impact on the world, and I would imagine that these new solid printers will have the same impact. Prototyping will become faster and cheaper. There'll be printing shops on the high street for those who can't wait for stuff delivered by mail order. And there'll be enthusiasts who have their own printers after the buzz has died down and every normal person who bought one during the fad chucked their's away when they found their nozzles have clogged up due to non-use.

That's probably more to do with the razor blade like business model that printers often use to suck the money of their buyers dry, with the high cost of ink cartridges.

 

[Zeeman]

Well China disagree with that one, and as long as you don’t sell it 1:1 IP will not stop anything. Sure they will make an example once in a while but in the long run they simply can’t stop it.



Well, it’s not going to change the world for everyone, however it will change one thing. You can’t control or tax everything. Let’s say I got a device, doesn’t matter what it is, and to get parts to this device I need to go to apply for a permit to import a spare part, with this technology I don’t need to ask anyone, I just get the blue print and make it.

It will take some knowledge, however most kids today can figure this out in a heart beat.
If I want a new JS I can make one with ease, today it will require an effort, but in ten years I think the technology will be much improved and we will see some changes in how things will work.

If you can get a 3D drawing you can make it.

The tech for control of this sort of thing already exists. Can you play ED without the net? otice everything is going cloud based (even though it does not need to)?

Z...

 

[EdzUp]

The tech for control of this sort of thing already exists. Can you play ED without the net? otice everything is going cloud based (even though it does not need to)?

Z...

So true with governments clamoring to control the Internet it's only a matter of time before its locked down.

Artificial Sentience will be the game changer for humanity as robots don't need money so with computers running everything and people making millions at the press of a button money will eventually become pointless and with that government control will collapse.

 

[lysan]

I will finally be able to 3D print my fully automatic assault rifle that doesn't break?



That's probably more to do with the razor blade like business model that printers often use to suck the money of their buyers dry, with the high cost of ink cartridges.

Well yes, among other things you could print that if you wanted to. However the applications are kind of endless.