[americandream]

So am I to take it that these devices will not be sold in disposable packaging, in vast numbers, hot off fleets of ships from somewhere in Asia, and via outlets such as Walmart, but instead be available on loan from communal outlets such as people's libraries?

Either way, are we being offered an alchemic device, whether for use within perpetual growth or steady state? Or is it mechanism for the faster depletion of the finite? That's my query.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'N')umbskull. Post had nothing to do with "perpetual growth".

[timmac]

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(PhysOrg.com)

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U')S scientists have introduced a concept design of the "Cornucopia" or Digital Fabricator, a "personal food factory" able to print food from specified ingredients, with no waste at the point of cooking.

[americandream]

If it has a marketing potential, it will be made in China and fast. Time and profit wait for no man in the annual growth scam.

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(PhysOrg.com)

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U')S scientists have introduced a concept design of the "Cornucopia" or Digital Fabricator, a "personal food factory" able to print food from specified ingredients, with no waste at the point of cooking.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('efarmer', 'I') suppose that the Food Printer will be almost a giveaway. The cartridges will break your heart in short order though, and you will try buying some cheap cartridges but they won't have the flavor of the good cartridges. After toying with the technology, you will see the machines sitting on ab exercise gadgets and particle board furniture at garage sales for $2, and every time you pick one up everyone will tell you that they no longer make the cartridges to fit that model and to pass on it.

[Tyler_JC]

Can you heat soup without a microwave? Warm bread without a toaster? Wash dishes without a dishwasher? Dry clothes without a drier? Make juice without a juicer? Make margaritas without a blender? Cook rice without a rice cooker?

If you can do all that despite having all of those wonderful appliances, surely we can remember how to prepare food without our printer.

All we really need is a fridge to keep perishables cold and an oven/stove top to heat things.

The rest of it just makes life easier.