For Those Interested in How Stuff is Designed, Engineered, and Built

[Texas Contrarian]

No doubt you have read about 3d printing, a fantastic technology that allows users to build three-dimensional solid objects from a digital model. Here's what a typical one looks like:



A USC professor of industrial and systems engineering figured out how to scale up this technology (way up!) and use it to build houses and other small buildings. The robotic devices would be able to lay foundations, construct walls, and even do quite a bit of the wiring and plumbing. Then finishing crews could come in and install flooring, windows, doors, plumbing fixtures, and appliances. The result would be a better built, better engineered structure that would go up much more quickly and for far less labor cost, and would be resistant to storms and termite infestations.

He demonstrates the process in this very interesting 12-minute video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdbJP...layer_embedded

[i'va biggen]

Great more blue collar jobs lost.Let me know when you have been replaced...

[CuteOldGuy]

Whine with the buggy whip union, Ekim. Technology happens.

[CJ7]

robotics got the car industry

[Texas Contrarian]

Originally Posted by ekim008

Great more blue collar jobs lost...

Good grief!

I hope you're kidding. Otherwise that post will be one of the leading candidates for dumbest post of the year!

(Although this forum contains quite a bit of truly worthy competition.)

[CuteOldGuy]

Ekim is a laugh a minute.

[Submodo]

Ah, the old buggy whip analogy.

The thing is, though, the cars that replaced the buggies were more technologically complex, requiring more brains and brawn to make. More people employed.

This 3D printer doesn't result in a replacement for the home... just a way to build the home with less labor cost. Fewer people employed.

[Fast Gunn]

It actually sounds like a really great idea.

However, the guy really needs to work on his poor presentation!

He should have gotten some professional speakers to really convey the idea with the energy it deserves.

. . . A great idea can be lost in poor presentation and come off sounding like a second rate concept.

[Texas Contrarian]

Originally Posted by Fast Gunn

It actually sounds like a really great idea.

However, the guy really needs to work on his poor presentation!

He should have gotten some professional speakers to really convey the idea with the energy it deserves.

. . . A great idea can be lost in poor presentation and come off sounding like a second rate concept.

If this idea begins to go anywhere, I have no doubt that its developers will create a beautiful presentation in due course. Right now I suspect that it's little more than university research.

[i'va biggen]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

Whine with the buggy whip union, Ekim. Technology happens.

You are really turning into a bore old fart.you are starting to hate everything and everyone..Humor is so far over your head..take your meds and chill...

[i'va biggen]

Originally Posted by CaptainMidnight

Good grief!

I hope you're kidding. Otherwise that post will be one of the leading candidates for dumbest post of the year!

(Although this forum contains quite a bit of truly worthy competition.)

Join cute old fart as the dullest goon here you fuckers suck big time...

[Sidewinder]

Yes and no, Submodo. The cars were technologically more advanced, INITIALLY requiring more production workers. As manufacturing technolgy advanced (*cough* Henry Ford *cough*), the required head count dropped.

Historically, when workers are displaced by technology, the workers find better things to do with their time. 150 years ago, the vast majority of the population of the United States were "employed" as subsistence farmers, and nobody was available to develop advanced technology, because they were too busy growing food for their dinner tables. Development of modern low-labor agricultural technology meant those people could do other things, like study medicine, or electricity, or build airplanes. (How do Wilbur and Orville find the time to build bicycles, their day jobs before they went off to Kitty Hawk, if they're busy growing food? Think about it.)

[Texas Contrarian]

Originally Posted by ekim008

Join cute old fart as the dullest goon here you fuckers suck big time...

Are you just another clueless clown whose tray table doesn't quite extend to the upright & locked position?

If time travel were possible, you'd probably consider it a great idea to go back and kill all the people involved in the invention and development of the computer. After all, it destroyed many millions of jobs. Before about 40-50 years ago, office buildings were filled with people who did little more than add numbers by using pencils, paper, and old-fashioned adding machines.

Ever heard of "creative destruction", a term popularized by Schumpeter about 70 years ago? In the above post, Sidewinder offered a couple of other good historical examples of the concept.

Technological innovation resulting in productivity gains is the only real driver of economic growth and development over time.

[Dawgs]

Technology, what would we do without it. More blue collar jobs gone? Probably not, somebody has to build and market those machines. If it means they can build houses faster and cheaper, more will be built. Yes some jobs will be lost in the basic construction phase but jobs will be gained in other areas.

[i'va biggen]

Originally Posted by CaptainMidnight

Are you just another clueless clown whose tray table doesn't quite extend to the upright & locked position?

If time travel were possible, you'd probably consider it a great idea to go back and kill all the people involved in the invention and development of the computer. After all, it destroyed many millions of jobs. Before about 40-50 years ago, office buildings were filled with people who did little more than add numbers by using pencils, paper, and old-fashioned adding machines.

Ever heard of "creative destruction", a term popularized by Schumpeter about 70 years ago? In the above post, Sidewinder offered a couple of other good historical examples of the concept.

Technological innovation resulting in productivity gains is the only real driver of economic growth and development over time.

Babble on you are clueless but happy this is a hooker board don't take yourself so serious no one else is...