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To: William Griffin who wrote (37551)	9/28/2000 5:12:03 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

OT -- Finally my second most desired thingy from the Star Trek world is nearly here. I am talking about the replicator and it seems that we'll see it within our life time! For the record, I am not as optimistic about the time frame as the article suggests, but by the sounds of it, in 10~15 years its promise may be realized. But for now, even these "primitive" versions are enough to get me drooling! Here's the article. It is worth reading. THINK OF AN OBJECT and watch it appear before your eyes. All it takes is a click of a mouse, a flick of a switch and you can have almost anything, made to order. Researchers are on the point of creating a magic box that can bring the stuff of your imagination into the hard-edged material world. The technical name for this box of tricks is a 3D printer. Where an ordinary printer lays down a single 2D layer of ink on a sheet of paper, the new devices can deposit a bewildering variety of materials. They add the extra dimension simply by printing layer after layer until you have a real, 3D object... newscientist.com