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cliffelam  ·  4254 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Printing a gun [30 minute video]

He was not expecting it to be good, he doesn't give a crap. His message came through loud and clear and that was what he wanted.

Personally I think 3-D printing is going to do to what I call the "dictatorship of IP" (and my son calls "The Disney Sponsored Violation of the Constitution) that cheap printing (samizdat) did to physical dictatorships.

My wife thinks I am nuts, but I believe that in just a few years, maybe a decade, it will be possible to print drugs. So the actual lifespan of a patent will be the amount of time it takes to reverse engineer the drug. Or what you'll actually pay for is the personalization of the medicine, the actual medicine will have a generic cost because it's just printed on demand, probably at a pharmacy.

It's gonna be awesome.

-XC