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Snowcrash is the book that is most often referenced in association with SecondLife and other virtual worlds. What I’m trying to do with Fabjectory is more along the lines of Neal Stephenson’s “Diamond Ageâ€?, where home fabricators are commonplace and being on welfare means having to deal with the slow trickle of available matter from the public pipe system.
While this day seems far off, I think it’s closer than many think. It’s my feeling that there already is a booming home fabrication industry: printing.
Sure, it’s 2d, but I think fits the same model. You create something from scratch or download text, put it together how you like and then hit a button and your “print fabricator� takes the constituent materials, combines them in the way you specified and outputs your manuscript.
This post is a modified version of a comment I left in response to Ian Hughes post on The Metaverse, Second Life and 3d Printers/home fabrication.
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