Hod Lipson Quotes

#1. We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.

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#2. I think, once recipes become digital, pirating a digital recipe and all the questions that you have with music and so forth will become pertinent to food as well.

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#3. If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime.

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#4. When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really changes things in a profound way.

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#5. The moment somebody is making money off the recipes, that's when you'll see digital rights management around it.

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#6. Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.

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#7. Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything.

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#8. The next episode of 3D printing will involve printing entirely new kinds of materials. Eventually we will print complete products - circuits, motors, and batteries already included. At that point, all bets are off.

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#9. A hexagonal piece of cheese is a lot better than a square piece of cheese.

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#10. 3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made.

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#11. Worrying about how you're going to make something is a huge constraint - most people can't make anything at home because it's too expensive.

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#12. We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.

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#13. If you're talking 100 years, there's no doubt in my mind that all jobs will be gone, including creative ones. And 100 years is not far in the future - some of our children will be alive in 100 years.

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#14. Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things.

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