10 bold predictions for 2014: How 3D printing, the NSA, and porn will shape our world

Geek ^ | January 16, 2014 | Graham Templeton

[RoosterRedux]

I have been analyzing 3-D printing and still have not form an opinion as to its substance.

The leader of that industry, 3D Systems, just hired "will.i.am" in some odd capacity to promote its products.

If 3D Systems is a serious scientific company, they would not have hired an entertainer to represent them.

This indicates IMHO that 3D Systems seeks to become a consumer driven company...and not an industrial company.

Buh bye serious markets...hello tweeters and chia pets.

[null and void]

Political power grows out of the nozzle of a 3-D Printer.

[null and void]

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

[RoosterRedux]

Ignoring my former post. 3-D printing cannot have a measurable impact on porn because it cannot create women.

And even if it could...they would demand dinner and champagne before considering anything more.

And who can blame them.

Men are stuck with their erotic urges.

They might be better off understanding them than simply giving in to them.

Not to sound flat...but ask Jesus/Yeshua for the answer here.

There is more truth here than you might imagine...

[Nifster]

Oh crystal ball...

[JRandomFreeper]

It's really dangerous to make tech predictions. They either wind up spectacularly wrong (flying cars) or spectacularly understated and underestimated.

Me? I just say "oooh" and "ahhh" as the miracles of future tech enter my life.

I gave up on really keeping up with technology when I was out with the flu for 2 weeks in 1992. I'll never catch back up.

/johnny

[Old Sarge]

An oldie but a goodie, from one of our finest hours.

[Hardastarboard]

The DoD is ultimately less interested in winning wars than it is in scaring its enemies out of starting them.

What a unique, novel concept. I seem to remember having heard this somewhere before. Some dead Greek guy from a long time ago or something. Too bad liberals have never picked up on this concept.

Its (Microsoft's) main pieces of productivity software are now almost perfectly emulated by free, web-based alternatives.

And you can't use them if you work in modern corporate America.

[Obadiah]

My money is on prediction 5. I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that Obama and the DC used the NSA to spy on political opponents.

[The Antiyuppie]

I will make a prediction.

When a high-fidelity programmable female robot becomes available, society will collapse within 10 years.

[The Antiyuppie]

When I can have a 3D printer in my basement (even if it runs on 220) that prints in reasonably durable metal with 0.001” resolution, then I will say that 3D printing is real. What this world does not need is a machine that produces more plastic crap.

I saw a fairly interesting idea (maybe from University of Michigan) where they put a MIG welder head on a 3-D printer. Great idea, until you figure out what the cost of the power and welding wire might be to make an object of substantial size.

[cherry]

I just feel that for me, I don't want to be part of the consumer driven economy...I hate it...being manipulated in everything...everything arranged for us....like sports....how many games are fixed for our entertainment pleasure...

we'll all be Thoreaus' when this thing is over....

[null and void]

Si vis pacem, para bellum...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[null and void]

One can make lost wax (or lost PLA) mold masters on a cheap 3-D printer.

My sub $300 printer should arrive in a couple months...

[null and void]

Me? I just say "oooh" and "ahhh" as the miracles of future tech enter my life.

Dr. Malcolm, "Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming."

[JRandomFreeper]

I'm not stupid. I've got loaded weapons. What could go wrong?

/johnny

[null and void]

Nothing that a frying pan and garlic butter wouldn’t fix...