The singularity is coming

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

A huge milestone has just been reached in what is currently a very niche area of research, but one which I’m convinced will affect all of our lives within the next decade. It has the potential to create machines, for free, which will themselves allow people to create almost any other object.

It sounds abstract, but the RepRap project has successfully created a rapid prototyping machine that can fabricate all of the parts needed to make a copy of itself. This takes a bit of work to get your head around, but is quite a profound achievement.

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