Zitat des Tages von Hod Lipson:
The moment somebody is making money off the recipes, that's when you'll see digital rights management around it.
So, where are the robots? We've been told for 40 years already that they're coming soon. Very soon they'll be doing everything for us. They'll be cooking, cleaning, buying things, shopping, building. But they aren't here. Meanwhile, we have illegal immigrants doing all the work, but we don't have any robots.
Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything.
3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made.
We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.
The next episode of 3D printing will involve printing entirely new kinds of materials. Eventually we will print complete products - circuits, motors, and batteries already included. At that point, all bets are off.
Worrying about how you're going to make something is a huge constraint - most people can't make anything at home because it's too expensive.
When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really changes things in a profound way.
