Farmers have been dealing with self-replicating products for years. |
If these machines take off, it will give individual people the chance to do this themselves, and we are talking about making a lot of our consumer goods. The effect this has on industry and society could be dramatic. |
It is the first technology that we can have that can simultaneously make people more wealthy while reducing the need for industrial production. |
It makes industry a little more like agriculture, |
People can start manufacturing goods at a low price, |
The most interesting part of this is that we're going to give it away, |