/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3991834

>>3824255

A combination of 3D printing, 10nm inkjet printing and mechanosynthesis will allow one to quickly print, on demand, whatever augmentation or mechanical prosthesis or micromachine you want, from blueprints and a pot of acetylene.

So, while there won't be an end to scarcity, there's going to be massive shift in everything from R&D to commerce to government. If you look at history, technology empowers the individuals -- There is a huge gap between the rich and the poor, not that it was any better before -- those who want to hold back technology are the ones that are allowing the powers that be to catch up and design new forms of control. But those are just old men, playing at running the world, but the world has left them behind long ago.

We are the future, OP, we have the power to build the machines that will build the machines that will set people free.