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Someday we're going to have cybernetic life walking about. And I have to wonder -- how well will they treat us, when they find out how ethical we were in creating it?
About how well we treat each other, I suppose; hit and miss.
As a developer, I think initiatives like this are important.
As a person, I can't help but think that being the person trapped inside the computer would be absolutely horrifying.
It would need sensory inputs like cameras and microphones to be able to have something to think about, but even without input, if that is all it had ever known, it probably wouldn't be horrifying. If you took a person/animal and kept their brain alive and conscious but deprived it of sensory input, that would be utterly horrifying.
And HELL NO! about selling them on the inkjet pricing model. Everyone hates inkjets for that very reason. We all know it's a scam, but we need to print stuff on paper once in awhile, so what ya gonna do? Your Average Joe doesn't need 3D printing, at least not yet. We want people to love 3D printers like they love their smartphones.
I agree except they need a way to bring the price down, and while it's an ugly solution it's the only one I can think of. The 3rd party cartridge refillers will step up at some point anyway.
Doctors can heal the same crabs with the same drugs, even with the same patient.
They heal the crabs? Doctors must need more DRM, as that's bordering on retaliation.
Of course it is going to be outpaced by the newer devices.
All devices are outpaced by the newer devices.
Since we're all here, we must not be all there. -- Bob "Mountain" Beck