"But there will be plenty of people who will see fabbing as a threat, environmental or otherwise, and who will push for legislation to control or suppress it. A victorious climate lobby would certainly flex its muscle against a technology that promised to democratise mass manufacture, as would those corporations whose bottom lines would vanish overnight – not just delivery firms like FedEx, but the factories in developing nations that churn out tchotchkes and basic hardware at low-low prices. It will be interesting to see how the traditional left-right political binary will fall across this issue; I suspect it might not be in the direction most easily assumed." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"A victorious climate lobby would certainly flex its muscle against a technology that promised to democratise mass manufacture" I kinda want to build me a fool-slapping machine, because the number of fools who need a good slapping is rapidly growing beyond my capacity to slap them all. WTF is Raven thinking here? - Andrew C (✓)

Whether or not fabrication is made illegal is irrelevant. Once there are machines that can easily/cheaply build other machines including copies of themselves then it's ON. The cat will be out of the bag. - iTad