May 29, 2005

Here's one to think about for implications

Read quickly, this one may seem irrelevant to the serious business of Information Wrangling... but just under the surface is something pretty remarkable: A rocket launcher of our own describes (a) capture of a data stream, (b) import into CAD/CAM software, and (c) export to a milling machine or 3D printer...
Science fiction, you say... but listen to Bruce Sterling and Alex Steffen (summary here, and audio). Fabjects and object processing are the stuff of Wired and MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms at the moment, but don't say I didn't warn me...

Posted by oook at May 29, 2005 07:12 AM