MIT Scientists says the Star Trek Replicator are only 20 YEARS from being real!!!

[Swagnificent]

3D printers won

Imagine a machine capable of building anything at all one atom at a time. Food, clothing, electronics anything you can think of. With personal computing power set to increase by 1000 times within the next 7 years scientists are saying this machine called a personal fabricator could be in wide scale commercial use within 20 years.

MIT Researcher Neil Gershenfeld, who is working on future natotech machines says that full on star trek replicators are only 20 years away. This is basically the holy grail for 3D-Printing. Right now you can only use simple materials like plastics to create small objects. However, remember who primitive computers were 20 years ago compared to today's smartphones. Imagine a world where a Replicator that can assemble and disassemble objects at the molecular level is available. No more scarcity. No money needed. No more need to waste the planets resources. Practically every object becomes 100% recyclable since everything is made of atoms and the only reason they look different is because they are assembled differently.

What kind of world will that be like? Are we even ready as a species for a world of abundance?

 

[Bud Bundy]

Would be nice. At least now a lot of plastic weapons. My grand children might end up eating replicate food. If Roddenberry is right this might heal the world.

 

[Master Teacher]

Would be nice. At least now a lot of plastic weapons. My grand children might end up eating replicate food. If Roddenberry is right this might heal the world.

Or further push the average person into poverty.

I'm sure these replicators would cost too much for the average person to afford and also big corporations can just build things and manufacture things with replicators and will have no need for employees, only people with computer software skills and technicians, but those jobs would only have so many openings.

In the future if machines can do all the manual labor for us, what will be people do, I mean the world will always need people, but the average person is pretty much useless in the grand schemes, so I could see it causing a bunch of problems.

 

[Bud Bundy]

Or further push the average person into poverty.

I'm sure these replicators would cost too much for the average person to afford and also big corporations can just build things and manufacture things with replicators and will have no need for employees, only people with computer software skills and technicians, but those jobs would only have so many openings.

In the future if machines can do all the manual labor for us, what will be people do, I mean the world will always need people, but the average person is pretty much useless in the grand schemes, so I could see it causing a bunch of problems.

You are just a negative nancy.

 

[Swagnificent]

Or further push the average person into poverty.

I'm sure these replicators would cost too much for the average person to afford and also big corporations can just build things and manufacture things with replicators and will have no need for employees, only people with computer software skills and technicians, but those jobs would only have so many openings.

In the future if machines can do all the manual labor for us, what will be people do, I mean the world will always need people, but the average person is pretty much useless in the grand schemes, so I could see it causing a bunch of problems.

Remember when cell phones were expensive and only the super rich had them. Now you have kids in Africa with cell phones. The way technology works is that at first its super expensive and doesn't work that well. However, over time it gets better and less expensive.

You are right that at first only rich corporations will afford them. However, like every information technology, it'll get cheap and eventually everyone will able to get it. Remember the beauty about the replicator is that it can make copies of itself. Thus if you make one replicator, then it'll be exponentially cheaper to make hundreds more.

I think you should limit your pessimism for the short term. At first many people will suffer because the transition from our current society based scarcity to a society based on abundance will be painful. Human beings unfortunately aren't built to handle the implications of this sort of utopian technology. Some invested powers will try to limit or stop it. But they will fail. That's just the way technology works. It only so long you can keep something paradigm changing like this down.

Stop being so pessimistic. The future will ultimately be bright for everyone.

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

where's my flying car and skateboard at?

 

[Un-AmericanDreamer]

You can all ready print guns so I don't doubt this discovery at all.

 

[Bud Bundy]

where's my flying car and skateboard at?

according to back to the future at least by 2015

so soon.

 

[Swagnificent]

where's my flying car and skateboard at?

flying cars are already possible but are expensive and unsafe

people can barely operate cars in two dimensions....you really think we can do it in 3

driverless cars are more impressive and are more likely to lead to flying cars in the future

 

[dabestkeptsecret]

 

[duncanthetall]

that would be amazing. Imagine never having to deal with traffic again. wake up at 7:50, at work on time at 8AM
- dont have to mess with airports or subways or any of that shyt. Feel like chilling at the beach, zap myself to rio
- one thing I wouldnt want to be one of the first nikkas to try it. I aint trusting no new technology to break up every atom in my body and put it perfectly back together

I agree with what you're talkin about, but you're talkin bout the wrong thing brother

 

[dabestkeptsecret]

I agree with what you're talkin about, but you're talkin bout the wrong thing brother

oh damn u right i saw star trek and immediately thought yall were talking about teleporters

 

[69 others]

researchers have been claiming whatever theory they're working on would be reality in 20 years forever. we're long overdue fusion power, almost human or beyond artificial intelligence, etc. not saying that this might not be different but a lot of times people researching these things tend to get a little too over optimistic and jump the gun.

 

[Tom]

Science = 1,456,334


Religion = 0

 

[MouseTeeth]

Can someone explain 1. What the hell 3D printers are? And 2. How the fukk they even work? To me like I'm a 5 yr old? Reps n daps on deck