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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

An admirably optimistic goal! What you're talking about here is a post-scarcity society like Star Trek, though. And even with machines to turn energy and goo into anything, they couldn't replicate complex machinery like a tricorder - only the individual parts, sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good enough for me! I'm not looking for a perfect solution, I can work with incomplete products with weak parts, as long as those parts are readily replaceable