[lit-ideas] Replicators: 200 John Donnes?

  • From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Lit-Ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 12:48:54 -0700

What would happen if someone builds a device that can replicate anything, incl. 
itself?

If it can replicate itself, soon there would be millions of them and they would 
be basically 
free ("hey, can i have another one?") and whatever they replicate would also be 
basically 
free ("how about a swap: my 3000 DVD players for your 2000 MP3 players?")

How would this affect economics? The North/South Divide?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/06/02/tech.reprap/index.html

http://reprap.org/

yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com


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