Future of Work: Custom Printed Bodies and the End of the 9-to-5 Job
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Need blue skin, four arms, or a tail? Want to aug­ment and extend what you already have? I am here to help you become your own avatar. Does this idea sound too weird or far fetched? The basic tech­nol­o­gy alrea…

The future isn’t in mass manufacture. It’s not in wood and stone and gold and steel. It’s in complex metamaterials that can be assembled on a microscopic scale and used to create objects that have shape, and form, but very little actual substance. It’s in computers a few atoms thick, printed directly into objects of any shape or function to enable them to have currently impossible abilities. It’s in the “Long Tail” of billions of individuals all with their own personal desires and seeking to have those desires filled.

13 October 59

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    I cannot wait for augmenting ourselves like this to become incredibly popular.

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