[ExI] non-physician heal thyself

[William Flynn Wallace]

Mike Dougherty wrote:  Right.  I expect our civilization will be very
different by the time molecular assembly is something we can do at home.
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I will be very interested to hear what is going to cause big changes in our
society, in your opinion, and what they will be.  (Or maybe you meant that
such a change would be very far in our future?).

bill w​


On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 8:11 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
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> Henry wrote:  3D printing of drugs at home by end users will disrupt this.
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> Wow.  Never thought of that.  What's to stop printing meth or opiates or
> just about anything?   This could disrupt the entire society.  Not that I
> would be against it.  Freedom from drug companies, freedom from physicians,
> freedom from drug lords.  Millions of unintended suicides.
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> Why would we need a 3D printer to make dope?  The molecules wouldn’t need
> to be in any particular configuration, only they must all be there.  I
> understand some labs have managed to do genetic modification on yeast to
> cause them to synthesize opiates.  No 3D printer needed.
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