I am not skeptical about the future of these technologies, I am skeptical about their present.

One day, maybe 10 or 20 or 50 years from now, 3D printing and home fabrication will be playing major roles in our economy and technology development, at the industrial level that has already started for prototyping.

Right now, like script kiddies and regular expressions and the nosql crowd, there are people out there who have a hammer and every problem looks like a nail.

Is that a 3D printed gun in your pocket or are you just feeling suicidal and have a weak grasp on the economics of mass production?

Interesting idea, but given that it takes the average 3D printer hours to create something only a few inches across it's not terribly practical.

It would be more practical to hire a basket weaver... ooh... woven trays...

Always act and behave as if there is no security for any device with a network connection, everything else is just some form of wishful thinking.

We don't go to Ravenholm anymore.

Daisy, Daisy...

The secret to Catcher in the Rye is reading it when you are a whiny teenager full of your own angst and immaturity and bursting with ego.

The message is:

1) You are not the only one
2) Don't do this

In my experience it wasn't about lack of caring, it was about HR being so clueless about technology that they didn't even know they were clueless about technology.

And so far they don't have a conviction, just an arrest.

I can't imagine how they hope to prove intent, even if the driver has a criminal record, when nothing was found other than the compartment itself.

Created by private enterprise on contract.

That's a very popular hobby.

I absolutely agree, but we've been through the first two steps already. All over the world, wind and wave and solar power have emerged and are becoming mainstream.

We live at an interesting nexus of human history, one that I suspect that will be viewed as just important as the Industrial Revolution is now.

News to me, but a quick google search backs you up. At least Klein said it in 1914 before Gandhi became internationally famous so it's not a recent misattribution.

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Remember people complaining about Ubuntu because it was "brown" and claiming Mint was better because it was "green"?