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jwhildeb t1_j1zlczc wrote

Reply to comment by ovirt001 in what could be the next big resource or science that will change our lives? similarly to how Electricity, a wheel or fire did it. by minde0815

Kinda, but aside from scale the fundamental difference is that 3D printers can only make things out of the substance they're fed. Replicators eliminate basically every type of scarcity, globally and locally. THAT'S the fire-like paradigm shift.

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