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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Adjusting my spime #157634 03/24/2006 5:21 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA The thing I read What I learned about it Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Adjusting my spime #157635 03/24/2006 10:08 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont huh. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Adjusting my spime #157636 03/24/2006 12:09 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City Interesting. The "dream" part of this is at least twofold, it seems to me. First, of course, the notion that privacy could possibly be preserved in the face of the widespread implementation of this technology. Second is that of the cheap recovery of materials. Apart from the presumable uninterest on the part of manufacturers to re-acquire spent goods for this purpose, as well as the probable high cost of this means of recovery -- individual returns to individual manufacturers in a very different line of business than the production of raw materials -- it is likely that products age not only due to stress and wear, but to changes in chemical composition. I would, however, be very glad to know where my glasses have got to. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter where my glasses have got to. #157637 03/24/2006 12:15 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC Undoubtedly lying on top of my thesaurus. TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: where my glasses have got to. #157638 03/24/2006 12:18 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City Thanks Ted. And just so you know, I wrote that sentence just for you! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Adjusting my spime #157639 03/24/2006 1:30 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Nice subject line, Father Steve. You fooled me! three-dimensional printers This, I understood the description of (somewhat, anyway: deposits on top of deposits, building up); but what I totally don't have an inkling of is: how deep do they get? How could a printer put out something, say, 6" or a foot deep? Say, a chair. Or perhaps they didn't mean a model you can hold in your hands--is it more like a bas-relief, maybe? wseiber, did you know about this? Edit: insel, I hadn't even thought about it in terms of manufacturers getting stuff back. Perhaps, if it becomes a reality, it'll be something like an ATM card: the tracking chip won't be activated until you put in your own identifier similar to a PIN. So maybe only you could track it...? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Adjusting my spime #157640 03/24/2006 1:36 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 Thanks, Father Steve - droll indeed! I agree though, it's never going to happen in the idealistic way that Bruce Sterling writes and speaks about with such engaging rhetoric! The reason is simple - where's the economic driver? We can already recycle stuff beyond our economic ability to make it worthwhile; and most of the social changes this kind of development would imply tend towards the authoritarian. "Don't do that, Dave...!" I like his word blobject, though... Blobjects are the period objects of our time. They are the physical products that the digital revolution brought to the consumer shelf. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: printing the future #157641 03/24/2006 1:40 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 I've used one of these 3D printers to prototype a machine part - they do indeed build up a fully three-dimensional model, and change the whole approach to product development. edit: I can't remember the exact machine I used, but here's a typical example, plus a BBC article about the technology. Last edited by maverick; 03/24/2006 1:49 PM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: printing the future #157642 03/24/2006 5:58 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky I am shocked. Thanks, mav. Love you! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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