This is Dr. Adrian Bowyer, who alongside his team of engineers at the University of Bath in England, is working on a project called the RepRap; an open sou...This is Dr. Adrian Bowyer, who alongside his team of engineers at the University of Bath in England, is working on a project called the RepRap; an open source 3-D printer - a self-replicating machine that will one day be able to print out all of its own parts.
It has been hailed as “the invention that will bring down global capitalism, start a second industrial revolution and save the environment.” Well, maybe. I interviewed Bowyer for the book, and his thoughts on the future of capitalism and society after 3-D printers become widespread are profound. He wonders if the RepRap has the potential to “make a dent in the entire concept of money.”
Perhaps even scarier than the concept of this machine is the recent announcement from RepRap that they will achieve self-replication sometime this year.
to Economy zukunft Ökonomie LW2-Arbeit Technik OpenSource by torstenschuenemann on Jan 7, 2008, 9:25 AM
