why I love Gibson
"Nanofax?"
"Everything the name implies," says Klaus, "and considerably less."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Nanofax AG offers a technology that digitally reproduces objects, physically, at a distance. Within certain rather large limitations, of course. A child's doll, placed in a Lucky Dragon Nanofax unit in London, will be reproduced in the Lucky Dragon Nanofax unit in New York-"
"How?"
'With assemblers, out of whatever's available. But the system's been placed under severe legal constraints. It can't, for instance, reproduce functional hardware. And of course it can't, most particularly can't, reproduce functional nanoassemblers."
"I thought that they'd proven that didn't work anyway," Laney says.
"Oh no," says the Rooster, "they just don't want it to."
--- from All Tomorrow's Parties
Stereolithography is coming true
"Everything the name implies," says Klaus, "and considerably less."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Nanofax AG offers a technology that digitally reproduces objects, physically, at a distance. Within certain rather large limitations, of course. A child's doll, placed in a Lucky Dragon Nanofax unit in London, will be reproduced in the Lucky Dragon Nanofax unit in New York-"
"How?"
'With assemblers, out of whatever's available. But the system's been placed under severe legal constraints. It can't, for instance, reproduce functional hardware. And of course it can't, most particularly can't, reproduce functional nanoassemblers."
"I thought that they'd proven that didn't work anyway," Laney says.
"Oh no," says the Rooster, "they just don't want it to."
--- from All Tomorrow's Parties
Stereolithography is coming true
posted by yesbob at November 28, 2010
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