--- Joe Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Not to disparage David, but there is a pretty big > literature on 3-D > >printers way before David's book. Um, pay attention please, Joe. The phrase "programmable matter" is already trademarked by author Wil McCarthy, whose concepts have been delineated in fiction, quasi-fiction (http://www.wilmccarthy.com/nature.pdf) and nonfiction, including patent applications. As for 3D printers, I was one of the first - circa 1980 - to make proposals about that. But I referred in this case to making duplicates of one's SELF... especially out of clay. See KILN PEOPLE, whose title says it all. WHy these guys would go with "claytronics" I don't know. Oh, in the release of Wil Wright's new game system, one of his flacks refers to the "cliche" of Uplift... har! In fact, his new game does nothing BUT uplift. There are very few aspects of evolution. Everything is player-choice gaming. Unlike our Exorarium http://www.exorarium.com/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
