PFs and GOD
Reading through the first article written by the MIT professor was a pleasure. It was awesome to hear about a class thinking so far in the future and seeing how possible this amazing technology is. The second article on the otherhand was like reading a blank piece of paper. But anywho..
Gershenfeld talked about personal fabricators and their ability to create anything, including themselves. He describes it as the same idea as in inkjet printer, where it puts little pieces in certain places on a paper, a personal fabricator would put those pieces in certain places in space.
Kahn seemed to contradict himself a lot and manage to write twenty some pages about one idea. At the beginning he claimed that anything created by God could not be recreated by man. But then he goes into saying that when we, man, desire, it causes everyone else to need. He finishes off the article saying that God created man so that anything man creates is manifestation by God.
These views are kind of opposite. Myself not being a religious person, has trouble agreeing with the latter, I still find it difficult to agree fully with Gershenfeld. It seems a little unfeasable to create something even as complicated as a toaster because there are so many internal parts that are made of so many different materials. I feel what man makes is by man, he made it. I dont know where personal fabricators will take off to, but if they become like computers, then I most likely will have one!
