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Additive technologies better known to the general public like three-dimensional printing, today they are developing so fast and are being improved that have become simply dangerous to society. To This conclusion was reached by experts from the United RAND Corporation States of America.
Here is what the experts say:
- firstly, 3D printing opens up the possibility of establishing mass home-made weapons, the most diverse, starting from pistols and ending with a grenade launcher, or even worse. By this in not only criminals can take full advantage, but also terrorists. For example, U.S. military engineers for example printed on the printer hand grenade launcher M203A1 caliber 40 millimeters (pictured) and successfully tested it – works on everything one hundred;
- secondly, three-dimensional printing, which makes it easy today and quickly create even the most sophisticated technical equipment at home, makes it easy for countries like North Korea to quickly build up military potential;
- thirdly, manufacturing enterprises using additive technologies are not protected from hacker attacks that may discreetly make their destructive changes, which is why the quality of products will suffer. By the way, such a precedent was already created when when producing drone at Johns University Hopkins attacker was “slightly” redesigned propeller, and for this reason, the drone collapsed on second minute of flight. It’s good that all this was done as part of research by the scientists themselves, but this is quite possible in reality;
- finally, the intensive development of additive technologies is already in the near future will lead to a sharp reduction in jobs. And this is in the time when society is not yet ready reasonably and humanely redistribute income received in an easier way, bypassing the efforts of a huge mass of people. That is, all this will only lead to increase in unemployment and impoverishment of ordinary people.
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And at the same time, experts at the RAND Corporation center note, three-dimensional printing allows you to create complex parts and mechanisms, even for humans, for example, heart valves, and at a penny cost. All this should contribute. intensive development of medicine, space industry and many others so much needed by humanity.
A certain contradiction arises: on the one hand, 3D printing – this is good, on the other – bad. And it’s bad only because ours society is moral (and if you dig deeper, then spiritually) imperfectly.
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