 pumba62
Male, 40-49, Canada
 649 Posts
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Friday, March 01, 2013 7:47:52 AM
I watched this and all I got out of it is that I know very little on this subject and I don't really care to know more. |
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 patchgrabber
Male, 30-39, Canada
5252 Posts
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Friday, March 01, 2013 6:17:45 AM
I happen to agree with most people here. At best I think of this as a prelude to better technology, but right now it just seems like they're trying to make it big seeing as how 3D printers got big. |
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 Justin9235
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
1558 Posts
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Friday, March 01, 2013 6:08:44 AM
Impractical, not cost effective, and disappointing. Perhaps one day. |
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 paperduck
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
981 Posts
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Friday, March 01, 2013 5:38:16 AM
And the building will cost 50 trillion dollars |
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Tupinambis
Male, 18-29, Western US
146 Posts
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Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:08:46 PM
This was disappointing... I was expecting some progress towards the Singularity. |
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comp_wizard
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
190 Posts
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Thursday, February 28, 2013 7:37:24 PM
I refuse to acknowledge time as a legitimate fourth dimension for purposes such as this. After all, ANY sort of construction will have a temporal dimension equal to the length of time between when it is built and when it falls apart.
A true four-dimensional construction is an object that extends into hyperspace, such as a tesseract. At present, such things don't exist outside of science fiction and theoretical mathematics. |
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 handimanner
Male, 50-59, Western US
1168 Posts
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Thursday, February 28, 2013 3:18:42 PM
How to make a REEEALLY expensive brick. |
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 CoyoteKing
Male, 18-29, Southern US
2993 Posts
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Thursday, February 28, 2013 2:05:40 PM
so you assemble something that then assembles itself into the shape you told it to go into when you designed and assembled it to begin with? not going to lie, that seems very pointless in pretty much all applications |
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 turdburglar
Male, 30-39, Western US
1779 Posts
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Thursday, February 28, 2013 12:27:11 PM
The kind of thing this guy is dreaming of is light years in the future. How does the 4th dimension relate to this presentation? Is it because this stuff is only possible in the future, and time is the 4th dimension? |
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 chicagojay
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
850 Posts
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Thursday, February 28, 2013 12:08:44 PM
Lord, I hate me some TED talks. |
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patchgrabber
Male, 30-39, Canada
5252 Posts
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Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:29:50 AM
Link: TED Talks: MIT Working On 4-D Printers [Rate Link] - The fourth dimension is one where objects can reconfigure their shape, like proteins that fold into different shapes. |
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