Synthetic Super Intelligence and the Transmutation of Humankind

Chapter 13: Genetic Laboratories—Atlantis Revisited
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Printing Revisited
D printing, or Additive Manufacturing, is when you make solid 3-D
objects from digital files. This is a relatively new thing for most people
in a jungle of technology, and the majority of us have a hard time
wrapping our heads around how it actually works, at least in its extremes,
as we shall soon see.
Multimedia 13-3: 3D Printing; how it’s done
The above video explains 3D Printing quite well, even if it may still
be difficult to grasp how something such as this can actually work. 3D
printers now work so well that we can buy them for our businesses and our
home. All we need is special software where we can create the blueprint of
the object we want to print, and then we send that blueprint to the printer.
The printer then creates the object by printing layers of the blueprint
programmed in the software. This is done by having the material you want
to print being sent through a tube into the printer by first melting it inside
the tube. Once the melted material hits the plate on the printer, it cools
instantly.
Plastic is the most common material used in 3D printing today (for
public use), but this process is certainly not only meant to be used for
plastic, although in general, you can do quite a few amazing things with
plastic, too.
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