I still view 3D printing as "slow replication" a la Star Trek. And the printer case and door continually remind me of the test teleportation receiving cabinet in the original "The Fly" (1958).
7
Replies
1
Boost
Actually, an even earlier version was in an original "Twilight Zone" episode (Valley of the Shadow - 1963) where a man stumbles across a small town with highly advanced tech. One of the devices they show him is a replicator that creates objects from printed paper cards with the molecular formula encoded on them. Very much like a 3D model STL or 3MF file. Way ahead of Star Trek replicators. Oh yes, and then there's the point-to-point teleportation chambers (called "evaporators") in the 1953 WB cartoon: "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century."
Replicators iirc did exist in early Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem
@ohir I've never been able to figure out how his works have ever been accurately translated to English.
@lauren
> how his works have ever been accurately translated to English.
Through hard work and the tremendous effort of a large team of CIA translators, as the legend goes ;)
https://culture.pl/en/article/philip-k-dick-stanislaw-lem-is-a-communist-committee
In reality, by the bilingual Poles, mostly. Were the translations accurate? It's hard for me to say – I can read the original and I can also pick up on the subtext because I grew up behind the Iron Curtain.
@ohir It of course is all the brilliant word plays and such that I have trouble imagining how the translations from Polish (which I can't read of course) were managed.
@lauren I will now be quoting this cartoon all night.
I seriously thank you
