Posted on 03/05/2014 9:49:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Imagine going online and, with a single click, printing out any physical object. With a miniature production plant in every home, there would be no need for retail stores, factories, shipping or the pollution associated with those activities. Large-scale automation of a huge segment of the workforce, combined with free worldwide-Internet, 3D printing and renewable off-grid energy will free humanity to achieve anything without worrying about basic material needs.
FREE WIFI FOR ALL
In the next few years, everyone on the planet with a wireless device will likely have access to high speed, uncensored Internet. A futuristic project spearheaded by the New York-based Media Development Investment Fund will see 150 miniature satellites launched into low Earth orbit beginning in June 2015. These satellites will “datacast” the Internet around the planet in a manner similar to satellite television, with plans to make the signal two-way soon after.
Citizens of the planet will be able to educate themselves on any topic at no cost, exchange billions of ideas at the speed of light and organize to overthrow oppressive governing regimes should the need arise. The Internet has already been responsible for the rapid rise of free software and entertainment including music, movies, books, news and video games and will continue improving when combined with 3D printing.
THE LIBERTY OF 3D PRINTING
The capabilities of 3D printers have grown exponentially during the past decade. The Nanoscribe 3D printer can replicate the Empire State Building within the width of a human hair and can construct models 30 millionths of a meter in diameter by layering of liquid plastic. It’s a matter of time before 3D printers are able to print at an atomic and molecular level; this development could allow people in the comfort of their own home to download designs off the Internet and print tools, parts and robot assistants to perform repetitive tasks.
Larger 3D printers could construct infinitely customizable houses, cars, boats and planes within 24 hours for anyone who wanted one. While hugely liberating for the modern working class consumer, 3D printing threatens established institutions of power and wealth that may resist the coming technological revolution.
WITH ABUNDANCE, DO WE NEED GOVERNANCE?
The overwhelming majority of conflicts in human history have occurred between governments as a result of resource scarcity. Spain, Portugal, England, France, Holland and Germany fought hundreds of battles while spreading disease and forcing the colonization of millions of natives around the world in order to bring home cheap crops, minerals and labor.
The Empire of Japan attacked the U.S. in World War II to secure access to oil and commodities in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and the main reason the Southern Confederacy wanted slavery to remain legal was to avoid many of the costs of labor involved in the production of cotton, tobacco and other agricultural commodities for European export.
Governing bodies have only existed just as long as organized agriculture, and their function has largely been to redistribute surplus resources in the form of taxes as payment for safeguarding consumers and stockpiles of goods from those who would raid them. If ideas, resources, goods, labor and energy become abundant, there would be no need for Social Security or welfare, and maintaining a defense force would be pointless as resources and goods would be available to all free of charge. Money would also become obsolete, because it has no intrinsic use or value.
In a world of free and uncensored Internet, 3D printing and near-limitless clean energy, organized central government would no longer be necessary nor serve much purpose.
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Yeah, and how will THAT work, you POS Volvo driver?
How are you going to MAKE doctors, nurses and support staff get out of bed at 6am to give you your "free" health care?
Sorry to break it to these trust fund a$$holes, but, SOMEONE has to PAY for your "free" health care.
It'll be just like it is now: The printer won't cost much, it's the ink cartridges that will get you.
So, we’ll be able to print free vegetables and food and medicine and water and everything and no one will have to work to produce the raw materials for anything, you just print everything on your free printer off free Internet. /sarc
Seriously, I own enough crap already.
150 satellites will be built, launched, maintained, and operated for free?
The stuff that is used in 3d printing is cheap and pollution-free?
This person is a buffoon
3D printers? It seems to me that we are at the high noon of the electronic revolution, and everybody is blinded by it. It's fantastic, i.e. " ...wild, absurd, far-fetched, nonsensical, incredible, unbelievable, unthinkable, implausible, improbable,..." to take the middle third of Google's definition.
David Archibald has written a new book. In short: Baby boomers enjoyed the most benign period in human history: fifty years of relative peace, cheap energy, plentiful grain supply, and a warming climate due to the highest solar activity for 8,000 years. The party is over—prepare for the twilight of abundance.
Roman needs a great big dose of reality. Is this crap what universities are supposed to teach?(rhetorical question).
So, if he gets sick, is he going to print out a doctor, dentist, or surgeon to diagnose and treat his condition ? How about the “free internet”. Does this idiot think the servers maintain themselves ?
Only the central govt gives stuff away for “free”.
It has been my experience that people value what they earned by the sweat of their brow, and even given something equal in every way will not value and care for it as well. If you knew, for instance, that you’d painlessly get another, you would not take care of it. In the end, we’d become wasteful to an insane degree.
IOW, it always costs something.
Even if government was all powerful enough to confiscate all wealth and the means to produce that which wealth can buy, theoretically giving the masses the ability to have or create anything it wants, it will still cost you.
It will cost you allegiance, conformance, right-thinking or any manner of capitulation, but it will be 'free'. So long as you are on your knees when you get the approval stamp to 'print' it.
“...and a warming climate due to the highest solar activity for 8,000 years.”
WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT!!! Did some crazy academic really say this? NOT global warming?
“Citizens of the planet will be able to educate themselves on any topic at no cost, exchange billions of ideas at the speed of light and organize to overthrow oppressive governing regimes should the need arise.”
Actually, they’ll be too busy passing around pics of ass to worry about that stuff.
Damn, I can’t drink this pretty. Too bad I have to take piss tests these days.
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