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Old 09-18-2013, 05:38 AM   #26
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Default Re: Nanofabricators, DRM and Forced Scarcity

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Originally Posted by Langy View Post
Only for manufacturing.

Human labor is still quite useful in almost all other instances, such as as engineers, doctors, maids, servers, technicians operating and repairing nanofacs, etc, etc, etc.
What for? If you need that, you fabricate robots or bioroids to do this stuff. Even if the setting somehow lacks decent AI, the nanotech revolution, which is required for nanofabs, also enables construction of bioroids.
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