In the 21st Century, Are we ready or evolved enough to handle a Star Trek-isk Bio-Matter Resequencer or in laymen terms a Replicator.

We have 3-d printers that can print chocolate on a cookie (youtube video). This was presented to NASA by Systems & Materials Research Cooperation, which won them a $125,000 grant to produce a pizza for astronauts (cited from universitytoday,com).

 What a great invention. Producing food for NASA and possible producing habitats for man kind on other planets and moons in the future.

SMRC’s prototype 3D food printer will be based on open-source hardware from the RepRap project.RepRap (cited from Quartz, Christopher Mims)

Malphin (UK Company) will be the first company to sell a home use 3D printer for $1100.00, we too, could have a home based 3D printer, granted the printer will be in a kit form and takes only 10 hours to assemble and the item you want to print has to under the size of 8 inches or 20cm. Not sure what that could be, use your imagination i suppose.

If 3d printers are the way of the future, what will happen to man kind? Will we live to work to eat to survive..would this technology put the average farmer out of business? Would we, man kind, lose the will to survive to forage for food if this technology was to replace our food sources? Would we become lazy and a non-producing/productive society? I think not. This would open up so many possibilities of evolving our creativity, artistry, possibly lead us to the ever out of reach Utopia. Is man kind ready for this? Possibly.

3D printing of food is a great use of today's thinking...can we use this technology to recycle all of the consumed trash? How far away is this technology? As we consume more products the less land fills we have on this planet. Would not it be a better use for recycling trash into new products?

 I would LOVE a food replicator in my kitchen. The time it takes to make a meal could be used for other activities, for instance, write a blog about my joining of the 21st Century :)

 Tomorrow's post will be on PADDs ( Tablets for us non Star Trek people)