Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Three D Printed Bacteria

Can there be any further doubt about the fact that we are in an absolutely new operating environment? I for one do not see how.

And if we are in an absolutely new operating environment, how can we possibly continue with the current economic system; you know, that several hundred year old one that is supposed to give us the means to operate as we need, and want to, in this new era; where not only is human skill something that can be retrieved at the click of some app, but now life itself can be output as just another kind of hard copy.

Think long and hard on what this, and other new technical developments, mean in regards to the statement that we are now confronted with entirely new sets of instrumentality, as well as entirely new sense modalities needing to be able to respond to this new operating environment.

It well and truly is a brand new ball game that we continue to play with centuries old strategies, methodologies, and the old fixations of one sense used to the exclusion of a more balanced approach (as with cultures first fixed on the oral tradition, which then gave way to typography and the domination of print for a while before the onslaught of electricity; whereupon now we face everything possible all at once, and in an ever more encompassing, and saturating way).

Marshall McLuhan made all this quite clear. And I happen to think he made a pretty good argument for it. Which is the reason I think you should take it seriously.

3D-printed live bacteria creates world's first "living tattoo"



Laser holograms create 3D-printed objects in seconds, no layering required


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AND, UH, DO WE WANT IT TO BE?


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