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To: combjelly who wrote (695652)	1/27/2013 2:22:38 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1577025

>> One thing you miss about 3d printers. We will no longer be mass producing things. What we will do is have many things customized for us. I'm not missing it, I just believe that for a long time to come there will still be more efficient means of production. But the idea of "faxing me a pizza" doesn't sound nearly so insane as it once did. >> As far as the universities go, that is already happening. MIT recently started offering online courses for free. I don't know if you can get a degree that way yet, but it is planned. You still will have to keep the university system around. It is the best way we know of to train researchers. But that will likely be their main focus. Right, but the university system is heavily entrenched. We will still have to have "research facilities" of some sort. But the entire concept of the university needs to change, and that change is very slow to emerge. Obviously, it cannot go overnight and Harvard & MIT are scratching the surface. It is impossible to rule out the idea of traditional universities moving so slowly as find serious, new competition. As to activities in space, I don't have any real expectation because we're so limited by the travel constraints. But I do think an ongoing space program makes a lot of sense, and it is great if it is carried out by private enterprise.