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Teaching how evolution works.

An idea worth spreading

3D printers are a safe way to introduce bits to atoms paradigm shift. Long before desktop nanotech fabrication systems arrive with all the potential dangers they entail, getting society used to the idea of just how much can be done will do more than any amount of one to many teaching seminars of lectures. Open a 3D printing shop in your neighborhood. Offer the services for a nominal fee. Offer assistance to anyone want to make their own 3d Printer. It won't completely decentralize manufacturing, but it will get people thinking in the right direction.
Hopefully by the time mature nanotech is available to our 3dPrinters the memes of perfect recycling and a world not based on scarcity but who can make the winning designs will be etched in our brains.

People don't know that I'm good at

fixing what's broken

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  A reply on Talk: Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine

  Feb 23 2013: It will be right up there with "the right to print bears". :-)

• A reply on Talk: Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine

  Feb 23 2013: Btw, thank you for noticing my post. It was up for many days, yet you are the first person to take note of it.

• A reply on Talk: Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine

  Feb 23 2013: Look for this article "Closing the Loop on Bond Selective Chemistry Using Tailored Strong Field Laser Pulses". I believe the same effects can be achieved using QCLAs much more simply and less costly.

• A comment on Talk: Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine

  Feb 14 2013: This is going the long way around to accomplish what is more easily done with a quantum cascade laser array.
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  A reply on Talk: Wingham Rowan: A new kind of job market

  Feb 3 2013: As one who is multi-talented but already disenfranchised and chronically underemployed I say welcome to my world. The unions did nothing about robots but go through hell to keep me out of work. Screw the unions.

• A reply on Talk: Wingham Rowan: A new kind of job market

  Feb 3 2013: Who better to enforce standards? The market place? There's no indication the market place will do anything of the sort for mini markets. There's every indication that enabling minimarket to use the already established stnadards developed by the government will enable technologies mentioned to launch and provide the services at a cost to those using them, NOT to the general taxpayer.

• A comment on Talk: Andrew McAfee: Are droids taking our jobs?

  Feb 2 2013: Why does this cut off before the end?
  
  Apparently it cuts off if you are watching it in full screen mode. This is the second TED talk to exhibit this.
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  A reply on Talk: Wingham Rowan: A new kind of job market

  Feb 2 2013: Was he talking about a government run site? I don't think so. He was only talkng about the government facilitating small business access to government credential and ID services to standardize the means to people developing their own privately run "service broker" systems.
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  A reply on Talk: Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization

  Sep 6 2012: Joel Floyd said "If everyone has access to value creating tools..."
  
  I think there's a T.E.D. talk in there.

• A comment on Talk: Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney

  Sep 6 2012: I don't need any new organs presently, but I wouldn't mind having a prehensile tail printed from my own cells and then attached. I'd probably want to replace my limbs with ones that were completely double jointed. It's ridiculous that fingers only bend one way. A hand that can grasp in both directions is a hand that is more than twice as useful. Why should we be a slave to the way we were evolved? Evolution is good for producing things which are adequate to the task of reproduction. Beyond that it fizzles as an engineer. Give me 4 throats so I can sing in 4 part harmony (less risk of choking to death as well).
  One should expect that the cells being cultured could also receive enhancement therapy while they are being amplified. The cones cells for my replacement eyes could be tweaked to include UV perception and/or increased visible light color differentiation by having more pigments than just RGB. While they are at it, print the retina so that it isn't inside out - so no blind spot!
  Futuristically, one can imagine printing silicon robot guardians next to each cell so that the authorities could shut parts of you down at will or to terminate you if necessary. Or maybe you could use them to interface with the internet.