Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from how Stuff
Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind.
Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb And and this is part
Speaker 1: two of our two parter on three D printing three
Speaker 1: D printers of the Gods. Uh. The idea here and
Speaker 1: the snazzy title, of course, refers to the idea that
Speaker 1: three D printers essentially allow almost any idea that's out
Speaker 1: there to take physical form, which in a way is
Speaker 1: kind of kind of godlike and it and it forces
Speaker 1: us to really rethink what the future is going to be, like,
Speaker 1: what our relationship with objects is going to be, and
Speaker 1: really also it makes us sort of think about what
Speaker 1: our relationship with objects is now. We talked in the
Speaker 1: last podcast about some of the current things that are
Speaker 1: going on, such as Devantie is wearing a dress that
Speaker 1: it was three D printed, people trying to three D
Speaker 1: print the perfect plastic gun like an actual gun that
Speaker 1: kills people, oxygen aryans printing out novelty adult toys exactly,
Speaker 1: novelty to us exactly. And uh, and today we're going
Speaker 1: to we we talked a little bit about the future
Speaker 1: in the last one, but this time we're gon we're
Speaker 1: gonna go a little more detailed on that. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk about some of the near future revolutions in
Speaker 1: three D printing that are really going to change the world.
Speaker 1: It's true because although three D printers aren't quite the
Speaker 1: transporter devices we hoped for at this point, the fact
Speaker 1: of the matter is that they are rearranging matter and
Speaker 1: they are sort of defined space and time when it
Speaker 1: comes to objects, into consumerism and to making what you
Speaker 1: want when you want it. So some of the things
Speaker 1: that are going to be happening very soon with three
Speaker 1: D printing um that are going to change everything. First
Speaker 1: of all, we're looking at three D printing reaching the
Speaker 1: industrial strength level. Now, three D printing, as we've mentioned before,
Speaker 1: has been a part of industry for about twenty years now,
Speaker 1: and it's been useful in UH create rapidly producing UH
Speaker 1: prototypes in some cases. But we're talking about a situation
Speaker 1: where three D printing will be able to produce objects
Speaker 1: of high quality, industrial grade that can be that can
Speaker 1: be a part of automobiles, etcetera. And now some automobiles
Speaker 1: already have through some three D printing parts, but we're
Speaker 1: talking about an age win pretty much all parts are
Speaker 1: going to be produced by three D printing as opposed
Speaker 1: to traditional subtractive methods such as printing the pieces out
Speaker 1: of a sheet of metal or using a mold to
Speaker 1: pour and pouring a mold to create the device. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I mean, at the end of the day, when
Speaker 1: you're when you're talking about the future three D printing,
Speaker 1: you're talking about materials that are lighter, that can be
Speaker 1: made faster, and can be customized. So it's a perfect
Speaker 1: fit for manufacturing. Um, So you know you're going to
Speaker 1: see more of these printers and factories just printing out parts.
Speaker 1: You also see them in the nano manufacturing industry, which
Speaker 1: will talk more about. And then you look at you're
Speaker 1: gonna see it just in actual like hey, we're gonna
Speaker 1: build something. We're gonna build a building, and so imagine
Speaker 1: large blocks of like custom building materials being printed out
Speaker 1: on a job site. Yeah. And and to go back
Speaker 1: to prototyping real quick, you're just gonna see that that
Speaker 1: speeded up even more. The ability to quickly produce a
Speaker 1: working prototype for for a new product. It's just gonna
Speaker 1: be it's gonna be exponentially improved. Yeah. In fact, the
Speaker 1: D shape printer, which was created by Enricodini, is capable
Speaker 1: now of printing a two story building complete with rooms, stairs, pipes,
Speaker 1: and partitions, and it uses nothing but sand an inorganic
Speaker 1: binding compound, and then the resulting material has the same
Speaker 1: durability as reinforced concrete. With this is super cool the
Speaker 1: look of marble um. Of course, now you can only
Speaker 1: use this on rounded structures, but the process itself takes
Speaker 1: approximately about a fourth of the time as traditional buildings,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't really require any specialized knowledge or skill set. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because a lot of the you know, we get into
Speaker 1: the idea of printing nano materials, and we've talked before
Speaker 1: about like when whether we're talking about space elevators or
Speaker 1: super tall buildings, we always come back around to the
Speaker 1: use of nano materials because when you're building things from
Speaker 1: the smallest level up, which to a certain extent is
Speaker 1: three D printing in itself. It's the idea that I'm
Speaker 1: starting small and building everything up from the bottom. But
Speaker 1: if you start really small, if you're building things up
Speaker 1: from the from the smallest structures possible, then you're able
Speaker 1: to create super strong materials capable of tethering a space
Speaker 1: elevator in place, or creating the sort of skyscrapers that
Speaker 1: right now we can only dream of. It doesn't change physics,
Speaker 1: but it changes the way that materials act in in
Speaker 1: the realm of physics, which is really cool because that
Speaker 1: is really liberating as as someone who is a designer
Speaker 1: in someone who is trying to do something like see
Speaker 1: a spacecraft. Yeah, I mean, it's the difference between me
Speaker 1: selling two things together, or me sewing up a hole
Speaker 1: in my hoodie or something as opposed to to an
Speaker 1: actual scene stress or an or or sewing machine doing it. Um.
Speaker 1: And you know, in the difference between a big visible
Speaker 1: um stitch and an invisible stitch. And it's just the
Speaker 1: finer level of detail, the finer grade of craftsmanship that
Speaker 1: you get when you when you build things up from
Speaker 1: that very small level. And when you're speaking about building
Speaker 1: up things for a very small level, of course, you
Speaker 1: start thinking about the medical ramifications that this because we're
Speaker 1: built up very small exactly exactly, um. And we have
Speaker 1: experiments and printing soft tissue that are underway now. UM.
Speaker 1: But the idea is that if if you can master that,
Speaker 1: you may begin to print veins and arteries to you
Speaker 1: to be used in operations and then um, you know,
Speaker 1: taking to the extreme, you can then print organs and
Speaker 1: you're not even taking into the strain. The extreme is
Speaker 1: of course printing the whole bodies. Yeah, I mean, which
Speaker 1: not only would would vanquish the whole organ uh donor
Speaker 1: problem that we have, right, but I mean you write
Speaker 1: you just hey, here's another me. Yeah, I'm just going
Speaker 1: to keep it in the and storage until I need
Speaker 1: to replace myself. And this is a great example of
Speaker 1: three D printer of the gods here, because we're essentially
Speaker 1: talking about a three D printer creating objects, creating a
Speaker 1: person as nature creates a person. You know, the the
Speaker 1: idea that it's it's just it's created from the smallest piece,
Speaker 1: it's it's grown. Yeah, there is an element of bio
Speaker 1: mimicry about this. We'll talk about this more when we
Speaker 1: talk about four D printing. But um, it is interesting
Speaker 1: that we're getting sort of back to the basics when
Speaker 1: we're talking about three D printing, because it really is
Speaker 1: sort of saying, let's take take nature's way of building
Speaker 1: up and see if we can recreate this process in
Speaker 1: a machine. Um. Consumerism, Yes, this is gonna be huge.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is what I think is going to
Speaker 1: be one of the most interesting aspects about three D
Speaker 1: printing because I think it will greatly change our behavior.
Speaker 1: And you and I talked about this in the last
Speaker 1: podcast last episode. Is that you know, one day you
Speaker 1: could go to Amazon and you could click on a
Speaker 1: box there that says I want to customize this because
Speaker 1: as Amazon has now decided to use this technology with
Speaker 1: their companies, um in their manufacturers, and it's just gonna
Speaker 1: be something pretty wrote like, Hey, I need to get
Speaker 1: this new SYNC, but I really would love to have
Speaker 1: I don't know, some sort of crazy design of vampire
Speaker 1: state building, yeah, you know in it or I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and we already have some of those options,
Speaker 1: for instance, with some of our our digital and some
Speaker 1: non digital media media. You want a book, okay, if
Speaker 1: you want it in hardback? You want and soft back?
Speaker 1: You want in paperback? Or do you want it uh? Digital? Right? Uh?
Speaker 1: And how do you want that album? Do you want
Speaker 1: it joined vinyl, you want it on c D, you
Speaker 1: want it on a retrocassette which is coming back in
Speaker 1: some case? Do you or you want it digitally? All right? Well,
Speaker 1: we have five options for that. You want to in flak,
Speaker 1: you want an MP three, you want it, and and
Speaker 1: you know, it just goes on and on. So you'll
Speaker 1: see that kind of stuff when you buy things. All right,
Speaker 1: what size do you want it? In? What color do
Speaker 1: you want it? Also upload the dimensions of your hand
Speaker 1: to upload that your actual physical dimensions, and we'll make
Speaker 1: sure that it fits you to a t us. So
Speaker 1: try to imagine that. So let's say that you want
Speaker 1: a specific design that you can get to pick from
Speaker 1: all these stock files of this specific design or you
Speaker 1: know stock art, and then yeah, you can upload if
Speaker 1: it if the object relates to your body, then you
Speaker 1: upload your own dimensions and then Amazon surely will deliver
Speaker 1: that to you within the hour because now even now
Speaker 1: they're trying to do same day delivery. So we have wait.
Speaker 1: Since we're extrapolating in the future, we have to think
Speaker 1: about this, you know, five years out. Yeah, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna see that It's going to be like with any
Speaker 1: technological innovation, there are going to be companies that adapt
Speaker 1: and shift and survive, and then they're gonna be ones
Speaker 1: that fall to the wayside, and there are going to
Speaker 1: be new entrepreneurs that that pop up that are like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is how people are going to be consuming. What
Speaker 1: can we do to game it? They're going to be
Speaker 1: products that come out that are specifically aimed at three
Speaker 1: D printing. Well, see, I'm glad that you brought that up,
Speaker 1: because it really does change the landscape of companies in
Speaker 1: their ability to produce. So, you know, I wonder does
Speaker 1: Amazon then begin to produce items instead of just distribute,
Speaker 1: because essentially they can take over if you can print anything,
Speaker 1: then why even half manufacturers that you distribute? Why why
Speaker 1: just um, why not just be the point persona and
Speaker 1: then that process? And then to what extent did these
Speaker 1: companies become the means of creating? You know? I mean
Speaker 1: because like we mentioned before, I mean everybody, everybody wants
Speaker 1: to to be an artist, Everyone wants to be a writer,
Speaker 1: everyone wants to be a musician to varying degrees that
Speaker 1: the Internet is a great example of all sorts of
Speaker 1: different people producing something and wanting to share it with
Speaker 1: the world. And then take that and translated to the
Speaker 1: world of objects. So do these companies end up becoming
Speaker 1: more and more involved in user generated content like the
Speaker 1: Wikipedia of objects? Right? And you know our our storefronts
Speaker 1: replaced by just a storefront. Yeah. Do you go to
Speaker 1: the mall and it's just one uh three D printing kiosk.
Speaker 1: We'll probably multiple chaos where you go in and you
Speaker 1: you print out the things you want. I mean maybe
Speaker 1: you have a situation where the stores are still there
Speaker 1: so that you can you can shop. People like to
Speaker 1: look at things before they buy them. But then when
Speaker 1: you decide you print it out. You go to the kiosks,
Speaker 1: you print it out, and you can print out you know,
Speaker 1: your your new shoes, your new dress, the toy for
Speaker 1: the kid, uh and maybe even your hamburger. I would
Speaker 1: but just say you could also pray. If you're a
Speaker 1: little bit you know, you feel like you mean a gnash,
Speaker 1: then hey you can. This is an ability that Cornelling
Speaker 1: University's fab Home fab at Home project can actually do
Speaker 1: right now. They use gel like substances that can be
Speaker 1: combined with other materials, including artificial flavor yeum uh to
Speaker 1: mimic the taste in mouth feel of many different foods. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this was really interesting because they also talked a little
Speaker 1: bit about the the Uncanny Valley of foods with this
Speaker 1: because because the gel like substance called hydro collides is
Speaker 1: is apparently a little unsettling, like it's filled with artificial flavoring.
Speaker 1: And you can print it, say, in the shape of
Speaker 1: a turkey leg, sure, but if it doesn't taste like
Speaker 1: a turkey leg, it's gonna be a little weird. So
Speaker 1: they they've really kind of decided that they need to
Speaker 1: work on the taste first and then worry about printing
Speaker 1: it out in to the four into the actual shapes,
Speaker 1: which which makes sense, and maybe to a certain extent
Speaker 1: it's I mean, it makes me think of candy, right,
Speaker 1: and specifically banana flavored candy. You ever had banana flavored candy?
Speaker 1: It doesn't taste like bananas, and to a certain extent,
Speaker 1: orange candy doesn't taste like oranges. But you get into
Speaker 1: that area, how close can the taste be to the
Speaker 1: thing and still get away with it? And to what
Speaker 1: extent it does it become a new thing because orange
Speaker 1: candy it's nothing like an actual orange in flavor or
Speaker 1: in texture. But I know, I was just thinking about
Speaker 1: to the twenties, and we talked about um when we
Speaker 1: did the food episode, and we were talking about the
Speaker 1: candy that became a stand in for a meal, because remember,
Speaker 1: people didn't have much money and they had those turkey
Speaker 1: meals and it was I don't know if it actually
Speaker 1: was supposed to taste like a roast turkey or I
Speaker 1: think I think they had chocolate and it was the idea.
Speaker 1: The idea was, hey, you need a meal, here's a meal.
Speaker 1: Peel it back and eat it. So we have evidence
Speaker 1: that we've done this before, and certainly if you don't
Speaker 1: have the resources, then maybe you can't accept that. And
Speaker 1: after all, it's a shot of glucose. Anyways, look at
Speaker 1: some of the stuff people eat already, Like a chicken
Speaker 1: nugget is nothing like anything real. It's you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's you know, you look at stuff with pink slime.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're already magnufacturing unreal food out of strange things.
Speaker 1: So and people and people love it. So um, pink
Speaker 1: slime is found in hamburger meat, right, yeah, yeah, So
Speaker 1: I I have no doubt that three D printing could
Speaker 1: easily create something that people would love, if not tolerate. Specifically,
Speaker 1: when you're talking about like say, long term space missions,
Speaker 1: I mean these are environments where, yes, you want people
Speaker 1: in space to want to eat because sometimes there's less
Speaker 1: of an appetite there. But but ultimately you know, survival
Speaker 1: food right well, And so that just made me think
Speaker 1: about the parallels between the Uncanny Valley and smell racams
Speaker 1: for food, right because there are some people who will
Speaker 1: say the Uncanny Valley isn't as uncanny or creepier as
Speaker 1: we think. You know, see a robot that's supposed to
Speaker 1: look like a human or act like a human, or
Speaker 1: move like a human and they don't because they are
Speaker 1: not in it unsettles us. But we get used to things.
Speaker 1: I mean, new food is uncanny Valley when you first
Speaker 1: have it, like you know, have Thai food for the
Speaker 1: first time, and you'll be like, this is a little uncanny,
Speaker 1: but you know you'll love it in a week. So
Speaker 1: guarantee you guaranteed. All Right, we're gonna take a quick
Speaker 1: break and when we come back, we're gonna talk even
Speaker 1: more about the future of three D printing and we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about four D printing. All Right, we're
Speaker 1: back and we're gonna talk here about four D printing.
Speaker 1: And just to be clear, the term four D printing
Speaker 1: is a it's a little bit of science headline bait.
Speaker 1: It's misleading. Yeah, it's it's it looks great in the headline,
Speaker 1: but when you really get down to the meat of it,
Speaker 1: it's not. You're not really printing in space and time,
Speaker 1: no more than you're always printing in space and time.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like three D printing on steroids. Um.
Speaker 1: And what we're talking about, we're talking about for D
Speaker 1: printing is passive self assembly systems, which is still pretty
Speaker 1: odd them. Don't let me underplay it. It's very cool.
Speaker 1: Self assembly m I T. Researcher Skylar Tipbitts is sort
Speaker 1: of the face of this right now in terms of
Speaker 1: self assembly. And when I talk about it being on steroids,
Speaker 1: we're talking about its allowing three D printers allowing to
Speaker 1: print parts to self assemble and reassemble into a number
Speaker 1: of products. So each part would be comprised of a
Speaker 1: regular rigid plastic layer along with an outer layer made
Speaker 1: up smart materials, not dumb ones. And then when they're
Speaker 1: submerged in water, the smart materials absorb and they expand
Speaker 1: and they cause the parts to move and form a
Speaker 1: pre specified object. It's like if you're wearing kite jeans
Speaker 1: and then you, and then you get reined on really
Speaker 1: heavy layer. You fall in a swimming pool, and then
Speaker 1: they start to shrink up, and then you were your
Speaker 1: your form changes and you you you go into into
Speaker 1: like stiff legged mode because you can't move your legs anymore.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like that the outer layer is the
Speaker 1: gene the blue jeans, and then the inner layer is you. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean think it's really interesting. And this is uh
Speaker 1: from a Ted talk that you sent me that Tibbott
Speaker 1: is talking about the future of this and what makes
Speaker 1: no sense so much sense. He's saying that currently we
Speaker 1: build skyscrapers with about five hundred thousand into one million parts,
Speaker 1: which all told takes about two years. And that's not
Speaker 1: even counting the dead gangsters in the concrete exactly or
Speaker 1: the vampires, um. And then he says though that we
Speaker 1: should look toward natural systems to get a better idea
Speaker 1: of how to use forty or self assembly. He says
Speaker 1: that we have proteins that have two million types, they
Speaker 1: can fold in ten thousand nanoseconds, and he says we
Speaker 1: also have DNA with three billion base pairs we can
Speaker 1: replicate in roughly an hour. So he said that out
Speaker 1: of all this complexity complexity in our natural systems, UM,
Speaker 1: there's still this idea that they're really efficient at what
Speaker 1: they do, far more efficient than anything that we can build,
Speaker 1: and far more complex than anything that we can build.
Speaker 1: And so he says we should look towards this model
Speaker 1: because it's it's really good, um and making something out
Speaker 1: of as little energy as possible. Yeah, I mean, and
Speaker 1: right now we're talking about again a little like a
Speaker 1: three D printed stick that when the water is at
Speaker 1: it, it it becomes a cube. But he's talking long term
Speaker 1: the idea of the self assembly of large scale structures,
Speaker 1: which is which is pretty phenomenal. I like how in
Speaker 1: the talk he gets a little philosophic too and talks
Speaker 1: about ultimately objects that have desire. Not only do we
Speaker 1: desire them, but they have they have a desire in
Speaker 1: the sense that there is something that they will be.
Speaker 1: I mean, it gets a little we want Yeah, when
Speaker 1: you get into one. I mean, it's kind of like
Speaker 1: when you're talking about memory, like say a spring having
Speaker 1: memory of spring. It doesn't have memory in the sense
Speaker 1: that we speak of it, but it does have engineering, uh,
Speaker 1: in a physics level of memory. And this would be
Speaker 1: that same level of desire. So you could also argue
Speaker 1: to say, my earbuds always have a desire to break
Speaker 1: after one year. Well, this is uh. This kind of
Speaker 1: goes back to Susan Black when she talks about Dawkins.
Speaker 1: She talks about memes and how humans are just meme machines, right,
Speaker 1: We're meant to communicate certain messages and over and over
Speaker 1: again and just spread the memes. But then she says
Speaker 1: technology is really the thing that we're spreading. So that's
Speaker 1: why she plays on teams UM And so I think
Speaker 1: about this in that instance, like we are creating UM
Speaker 1: the technology to ultimately reproduce itself and brings us back
Speaker 1: into the world of nanotech. But I was gonna say, really,
Speaker 1: at a very small scale, which is now um possible
Speaker 1: in nano three D printing, I cause you're talking about
Speaker 1: really fine resolutions that enable the creation of intricately structured sculptures.
Speaker 1: Is tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny as a grain of sand.
Speaker 1: There's actually a great video we'll we'll try to remember
Speaker 1: to post this, but it shows that in fifty seconds
Speaker 1: this aircraft is created through a nano three D printer,
Speaker 1: and if you look at it through obviously there's like
Speaker 1: magnified and you see the details and it is perfectly scale.
Speaker 1: It's it's a beautiful rendering and it is an object
Speaker 1: and it is as big as a tiny grain of salt. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean it comes back into again to what I've
Speaker 1: been talking about with the idea of building things with
Speaker 1: the smallest parts possible. The more that the smaller that
Speaker 1: the building blocks, the more power you have over the structure,
Speaker 1: over the ultimate finished product. It's like with legos. Think
Speaker 1: back to the legos you had when you were really young,
Speaker 1: whether it were kind of big and and boxy because
Speaker 1: it would be harder to fit in your mouth, and
Speaker 1: then the smaller legos you eventually grew into, which one
Speaker 1: would which blocks allow you to create the more detailed
Speaker 1: model the smaller blocks of course, of course. And then
Speaker 1: when you think about something that we mentioned before, the
Speaker 1: gaming controllers, in which there's the ability to throw down
Speaker 1: to lay down electronics and those objects that are three
Speaker 1: D printed, and you look at nano printing and you
Speaker 1: know it's just a matter of time where you can
Speaker 1: get the same sort of electronics into the object. Then
Speaker 1: you start to think more about what does the future
Speaker 1: look like long term sicky years from now. Um, it's
Speaker 1: not just about creating nano printed scaffolding to grow tissue
Speaker 1: on or to use in other nano manufacturing parts. There
Speaker 1: is a real ability to say, create a robot that
Speaker 1: is at the nano scale and what happens then, well,
Speaker 1: then we have the idea that we have machines that
Speaker 1: can repair themselves. We have we have structures that can
Speaker 1: repair themselves, buildings that can heal, bridges that can build themselves,
Speaker 1: little tiny robots that can peek into your private life.
Speaker 1: We're talking about this the other day when we're shooting
Speaker 1: a video. Yeah, we were just saying that, Um, I mean,
Speaker 1: how do you combat that we have your own little
Speaker 1: army of nano robots system really of nanobots to protect
Speaker 1: your privacy and your interests. And we all kind of lit.
Speaker 1: We're just all crawling with them like fleas that we
Speaker 1: just and maybe they're also programmed to cut our hair
Speaker 1: and to groom ourselves, which is nice, it's lovely. Um.
Speaker 1: Other considerations. We talked about this when we talked about
Speaker 1: the atropasy, and this is the idea of we are
Speaker 1: now in the age of man and that human activity
Speaker 1: has left a stratigraphic signal in the soil and scars
Speaker 1: in the earth, chemical signatures, etcetera. Yeah, and we find
Speaker 1: this an ice cores. Right, there's data retreat from glacial
Speaker 1: ice cores that show the beginning of a growth in
Speaker 1: atmospheric concentrations of several greenhouse gases, in particular CEO two
Speaker 1: and c H four. And the starting date actual actually
Speaker 1: coincides with James Watt's invention of a steam engine in
Speaker 1: four So you begin to see this layer of sediment.
Speaker 1: So the question is, you know if a human or
Speaker 1: some other intelligent being were to look at the soil
Speaker 1: a thousand years from now, um, and would they look
Speaker 1: at the soil and say, ah, this is this is
Speaker 1: the year that they really began to use a three
Speaker 1: D printer, because now we have this huge polymer sediment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the age in which they took all available
Speaker 1: mass and used it to print a whole bunch of nonsense.
Speaker 1: So you just have to and just drown themselves. And
Speaker 1: again a come back to the idea of the Internet
Speaker 1: vomiting into the physical world as it is as three
Speaker 1: D printing is this gateway way by which the Internet
Speaker 1: and all of its nonsense and all of its beauty
Speaker 1: and all of its horror can actually take physical form well,
Speaker 1: and you kind of think about this is another prong
Speaker 1: in the Internet of things. We talked about the Internet
Speaker 1: of things being that that data is alive around us
Speaker 1: at all times. In other words, you know, you could
Speaker 1: have a refrigerator that could tell you if you needed
Speaker 1: eggs or your eggs were expired. And you know, this
Speaker 1: is just another idea of how objects play into this.
Speaker 1: I like to think of it in terms two of
Speaker 1: our work print printer, Like, think of all the things
Speaker 1: that you find printed out that people have forgotten about.
Speaker 1: You find like say, um, detailed tax information, legal information,
Speaker 1: personal information, private correspondences, recipes, work Once I found that
Speaker 1: somebody had written and it wasn't me, somebody else in
Speaker 1: the office had written um, like a large portion of
Speaker 1: like a sci fi novel. So things just sitting there
Speaker 1: on the on the on the printer. If we had
Speaker 1: three D printers, what kind of stuff would you find
Speaker 1: they're just sitting sitting there on the desk or clogged
Speaker 1: up in the printer. Would you find like, by the way,
Speaker 1: we're not giving anything away when we say that someone
Speaker 1: wrote a chunk of sci fi novel here because there
Speaker 1: there's a good many people here. I can't even narrow
Speaker 1: down who it might have been at the time, but
Speaker 1: the manifesto on popcorn there's only one person. But but
Speaker 1: just think, you know, you would go to the printer
Speaker 1: and then there's somebody has printed out, you know, a
Speaker 1: size perfect dress for themselves that they were going to
Speaker 1: wear that night and left early and forgot to pick up.
Speaker 1: Someone printed out some sort of rather personal, um adult
Speaker 1: device that you know, they could be fired for. Someone
Speaker 1: else printed out just a toy that that that was interesting. Oh,
Speaker 1: they needed to know the action figure to go on
Speaker 1: their death, so they printed out eight of them by
Speaker 1: accident by accidentally hitting the button eight times. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can just go on and on. I know, I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to figure out if this is glorious? Are awful?
Speaker 1: I know that's a little but that's the question we
Speaker 1: always ask the technology and and probably yeah, it's a
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