An invention that makes the nation of China redundant

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RepRap the 3D Printer will be like owning your own outsourced slave-labor factory for cheap goods! (No outsourced slave labor involved)

If every tech-savvy household has one of these, and design or download their own schematics, small businesses will flourish like mold and the world economy will turn on its head.

I've seen these before, I'll be skeptical until I use one how good they are. First step to a functioning replicator?

Let's see: we've outsourced our jobs and now we've got massive unemployment. We've taken the proceeds of an economy that is based less and less on actually making stuff, plus borrowed money, and spent it on things that go bang and disappear. We never did address oil dependence, either. Nevertheless, the stock market isn't feeling any pain. We've been sold out, and I don't know who is to blame.

But we can fix all this by just buying a printer! Too bad I already have a printer.

personally I think i'd hold out for a laser sintering model, a similar process using various metals instead of thermoset plastics. Saw some cool examples of working hinges an gear boxes, built together as a unit and impossible to disassemble.

Maybe your right. But I would not want to be in a manufacturing, export based economy when we develop proper Nanotechnology

No wonder they say truth is the new hate speech.

Maybe in the future, even an average Chinese can own an open source 3D printer so he'll be owning his own workshop, instead of working/slaving in one. Wouldn't that be great?

I think devices like a RepRap will pave way to a new economic system called Distributism - which the general masses can afford their own means of production. And it will be beautiful.

you are right, i read too much into it. i apologize.