Watch an old Star Trek episode and you’ll see technologies that existed only in the mind of creator Gene Roddenberry at the time—now commonplace.
People running around with hand-hand gizmos that did everything?
Today’s cellphones.
And while we haven’t perfected the transporter yet—you know, that platform that reduces people and things to the molecular level and then reassembles them in another location, I am beginning to think that we’ll lick that one too.
Why?
Because of the following video.
The photocopier is amazing enough---a one-dimensional picture of whatever is scanned. The newest technology is 3-D copying---or the quite literal FABRICATION of complete objects in a machine following scanning. Thanks to good friend and faithful blog reader and contributor Rick Cooper for sending this to me.
Make sure you are sitting down while watching this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZboxMsSz5Aw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Unbelievable!
The minds that create these contraptions are beyond my feeble comprehension. The combination of scanning technology, computer –assisted design and material science that allows the formation of objects out of resin/powder/whatever is completely off the charts.
Videos like this one shake the foundations of what is possible—and while it may be hard to imagine (for instance) a world that can exist without reliance on oil for energy, incredible advances in technology will surely move us into a new era of discovery.
And how exciting is that?If you’d like my blog in your box daily (through the miracle that is e-mail), just let me know! tim.moore@citcomm.com
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