Re:The Homeless Billionaire
by jorgeortiz85 on Sunday May 25, 2008 @04:54PM
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I think I'm fundamentally a pessimist on this front.
I think, for example, that the rising price of oil is a symptom of the absolute physical limits that material resources face.
Some raw materials have a small cost, others have a high cost.
Yes, in a sense: see reprap.org, and further along in the future, molecular nanotechnology. However, there will always be a (small) cost for the raw materials that go into the finished product.