I’ve long thought that for intra-organization communications blogs are much better than email. I was very concerned a few years ago when I was consulting for a major aerospace corporation (which shall remain nameless to protect the guilty) how much technical work was going on in emails that were difficult to archive or search properly.
An interview on the subject of space transportation safety. Just for the record, I have always thought, and continue to think, that the notion that private operators are likely to be less safe than NASA to be foolishly ludicrous. All the incentives are the other way.
They’ve cloned a Stradivarius with a 3-D printer. I don’t think we’re that far from Star Trek replicators.
The economic and market effects of this technology will be far reaching. For instance, as Eric Drexler pointed out in the eighties, what happens when there is no way, other than a chain of custody, to tell the difference between the original Mona Lisa and an exact copy?