From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Thu Nov 28 2002 - 23:42:13 MST
mez@apexnano.com (Ramez Naam) writes:
>This sort of fabrication process would be effectively a successor to
>current factory-based manufacturing techniques, but it could never be
>used for the kind of bottoms-up, plant-a-seed-and-watch-a-car-grow
>nano assembly that some dream about, and that has the greatest
>potential for massive social change.
It's unclear to me whether anyone is predicting grow-a-car-from-seed
technology by 2020. I predict assemblers by 2020, but I think a better
analogy than seeds is the kind of rapid prototyping system (3-d printer)
made by Stratasys Inc. or 3-D Systems Corp.
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