"In five to 10 years... you're going to be able to print DNA and tissue."
Posted 03.15.2013 at 12:30 pm
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The future of 3-D printing
Dave Mosher
This much is certain: The fabricate-at-home future has arrived, and it's here to stay. But just how far affordable 3-D printers and other personal manufacturing devices will take us, and what other devices we should expect to soon change our lives, remain unclear. If anyone has a better sense than most, however, it's Carl Bass, the CEO of Autodesk.
The $9 billion company made its mark by creating industry-standard design software called AutoCAD. And this month they partnered with MakerBot--creators of the high-res 3-D printer Replicator 2--to capture swelling numbers of potential customers equipped with 3-D printers. We chatted with Bass at the 2013 Kairos Global Summit, held at the New York Stock Exchange, to peer into his crystal ball of home fabrication.
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"The $9 billion company made its mark by creating industry-standard design software called AutoCAD. And this month they partnered with MakerBot--creators of the high-res 3-D printer Replicator 2--to capture swelling numbers of potential customers equipped with 3-D printers."
Awesome partnership and good things will come!
He did specifically say 3d print DNA. So, even if Dino DNA is not complete enough to clone, they will be able to reconstruct the data and print the full DNA out. It’s only a matter of time and the collection of data. Can printed hydrogel allow metal to be welded in place next to plastic without melting it?
Wrong CEO to talk to. Try John Walker.
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Even if this claim were true, of what actual value would printing DNA at one's home have? You can already collect all the DNA you desire by spitting into a dixie cup.
As for the future of 3d, it's not Autodesk. An awful price gouging company that makes terrible bloatware.
Evetually, riff_raff, we will be able to print food.
Chew on that potential...
*Eventually
"....Evetually, riff_raff, we will be able to print food.
Chew on that potential..."
Stop and think for a moment just how silly your comment actually is. If you have the fundamental materials to "print foods", then why bother to print them in the first place? Wouldn't it be far more efficient for humans to simply consume the raw materials?