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28 Jul 2024 14:22:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Replicators NOT drones  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 2 Dec 2013 20:29:12
Message: <529d33e8$1@news.povray.org>
On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 19:58:18 -0500, James Holsenback wrote:

> On 12/02/2013 03:09 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:11:10 -0500, James Holsenback wrote:
>>
>>> hey if bezos /really/ is the visionary everyone says he is ... he'd be
>>> looking into replicators (ala star trek) NOT drones
>>
>> Either that or transporters.  There's not a lot of money to be made in
>> fabrication-on-demand technology like replicators, but transporters -
>> well, that's just another delivery mechanism. :)
> 
> too bad we have to wait for some egghead to figure out how to convert
> matter to energy then back ... hey 10/15 years ago the idea of a 3d
> printer would have been considered a pipe dream, so I don't think the
> eventual reality is /too/ far fetched.

Absolutely. :)

Jim


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