Core77 points us to a video by Bruce Sterling that presents a near future world where we buy items like furniture on the web and they’re made to order using 3D Printing. Throw in some smart Google Maps tracking and total-recycling and it starts making sense.
One thought that sparked while we watched the video was – why does the chair need to be made at some big distribution center somewhere? Why can’t we take the design we buy to a Kinkos and get the chair printed there?
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Basically a less dramatic/exciting version of William Gibson ’s’Idoru’ from 2003.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:20 pm
I wrote some thoughts about fabbing a few weeks back
http://farisyakob.typepad.com/blog/2007/09/the-new-vitruvi.html
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:03 am
Have a look at the Absolut/Treehugger campaign – In An Absolut World. This is exactly what they are championing – but everybody has their own small machines at home, with larger ones available for public use – at Kinkos or such like.
http://www.treehugger.com/absolut/2007/08/in_an_absolut_downloadable_wor.php
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:30 am
wait.. Isn’t it kinda this?
http://www.ponoko.com/
Coleman.
October 10th, 2007 at 9:17 pm