A conversation on TED.com: Soon industrial 3D printing will have the capacity to create buildings and whole city blocks

toby flaye
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Soon industrial 3D printing will have the capacity to create buildings and whole city blocks

With the ever increasing development of rapid prototyping / 3D printing and its eventual incorporation into architectural practice - bridging the gap between digital design methods and building methods. The cities of the future will be manufactured - either component wise or whole scale - by computer aided robotic machines. What ethical ramifications do people see in this type of construction shift?

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Kirk Frink
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Jan 10 2012: Using a technologically advanced building technique, the Romans were able to create with reinforced concrete the extension of their empire. I do not think that this was all good... but many positive things came from it as well.
edward long 30+
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Jan 9 2012: If by "create" you mean habitable, fully-functional structures i say not for a lonnnnnnng time will such capability exist. By then we will have colonized another planet or become extinct.