Science Fiction Sneaks Up May 9, 2007 Editorial Make your
May 9, 2007
Editorial
Make your own spatula or SpongeBob key ring. That is the promise of the 3-D printers that may soon be gracing your kitchen or family room.
They are a lot like normal printers, but instead of using ink, they layer, in one case, nylon powder. With layers of the powder melted into place by a halogen bulb, they build three-dimensional objects. It s so logical you almost miss that it s inching up on a Star Trek replicator.
Yet the floor is hardly littered with dropped jaws. Incrementalism is a subtle but powerful force. It robs the greatest advances of much of their glitter and awe, reining every leap into a baby step forward from whatever came before it.
For one thing, those most likely to get excited are long since over it, accustomed to $15,000 versions already in industrial design shops, dental labs and architecture offices. The experts are already dreaming of printing robots. But as Saul Hansell reported this week in The Times, several companies are trying to bring the price down to the $1,000 to $2,000 range in the next five years, paving the way to move the machines into homes.
Once the all-in-one scanner, fax, copier and printer became a standard home appliance, desktop publishing became ho-hum too. Now the day that a parent will be able to conceive, design and print out a toy without leaving home is an impending certainty rather than a far-fetched possibility. As it advances, the technology could lead to an explosion of invention and innovation, when anyone can turn ideas into objects.
Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company
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Actor/Senator Fred Thompson’s 1994 Issue Positions
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Mon, 7 May 2007 at 2:16 PM
Project Vote Smart, which compiles voting records and other background materials on politicians, has finally put up its page on Fred Thompson (OK, maybe "finally" isn’t exactly the fairest word when Mr. Thompson hasn’t even announced for president — but I’ve been eager to see it).
Anyway, it seems Mr. Thompson filled out a survey for Project Vote Smart back in 1994, when he was running for Senate. While it’s mostly pretty predictable (boo foreign aid, yay low taxes), there are a few parts worth scrutinizing… (see: abortion, education, AIDS)
* Under health care: Mr. Thompson’s already gotten in a scrape with National Review for not supporting federal medical malpractice reform while in Congress. In this survey, he notes his opposition to it — so, at least he was consistent. He also declined to check the box supporting deregulation of private health care.
* Under unemployment: He doesn’t support Jack Kemp-style "enterprise zones," with low taxes to attract businesses, in urban areas.
* Under trade: He does not support expanding NAFTA to the rest of Latin America. He does, however, want to open up markets on the Pacific Rim.
* Under education: He does not support nationwide standards, such as those that would later be included in No Child Left Behind. He does, on the other hand, support vouchers. (He also declined to check the box for "Eliminate the U.S. Department of Education." Back in 1994, plenty of Republicans still did want to eliminate it. Some of us would still like to do so today.)
* Under abortion: He checked the box for: "Abortions should be legal in all circumstances as long as the procedure is completed within the first trimester of the pregnancy." He did, however, support a number of restrictions on abortion: requiring parental notification, allowing states to impose waiting periods, and eliminating all federal funding of abortion. Lastly, he said Congress should leave legislation on abortion to the states…
Hanover library director to retire (The Evening Sun)
Priscilla Greco McFerren is nothing like the stereotypical librarian. She doesn t wear her hair in a bun. There isn t a pair of glasses attached to a chain around her neck.
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