http://www.versalaser.com/english/index.html
OK -- so it costs $10K, and is thus prohibitive for the home user. But I feel in my bones is that here is a portal to a new and changed future, made possible by "desktop" manufacturing. This device is a laser tool of sufficient power to engrave, emboss, cut, slice, and dice most non-metallic materials under PC control, just as if it were a printer.
George Gilder predicted something like this less than a decade ago, as part of his perception that value was moving from the tangible to the ideational. Now it is actually coming true -- yet another techological/economic iceberg seeming no bigger than a man's hand. If so, we had best not be on the Titanic.
Posted by jho at July 3, 2003 09:41 PM