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Old 09-07-2017, 03:53 PM   #24
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Default Re: How hard is it to acquire raw materials for 3D printing?

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Originally Posted by sir_pudding View Post
If we take it literally, and the bottleneck is licensing, then the only thing stopping exponential growth is IP bureaucracy.
Yeah, which is blatantly absurd though it might fit the genre.

There's a general problem with 3d printers and the like: you have to choose between cool effects and rational economics.

A cool effect is "My $100,000 robotic minifac can print a $100 device in 1 hour" (this is vanilla UT).

Rational economics looks at that and says "That's not a $100 device, it's a $2 device".
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