| With the speed we humans progress in technology and science (think today versus 30 years ago), I think its reasonable to say in next 30 years we will master scanning/printing on the atom level. By scanning I mean taking any object (or living form) and shoot it with some wave to obtain a matrix image (like MRI) but on an atom level. By printing I mean you will have an .ato file just like a CAD drawing and printer will print a 3d object but instead of using plastic or some material it will print using single atoms. This technology will ultimately solve all human problems, lets only pray that it will be developed by some consortium of civilized and reasonable countries. Transportation will be fixed by ability to "teleport" people. your atom map will be saved and transferred over Internet to a destination, where a printer will print you out. Within the time once mastered this, we will be able to solve all health problems. You will be scanned and all your health issues fixed by an algorithm working on your image file, then from your image reprinted healthy, perhaps even without that pot belly. Our cities will be rebuild (reprinted) from a scratch by this technology. I know this sounds like a heavy delusional science fiction, but todays scientists are already able to change metal into gold by shifting atoms, its just process alone is extremely expensive, making it useless from a financial point of view. |