<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite" __apple_fixed_attribute="true"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Mar 31, 2017, at 2:10 PM, Mike Dougherty <<a href="mailto:msd001@gmail.com">msd001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 9:15 AM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span>wrote:<br></span></font><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mike Dougherty wrote: Right. I expect our civilization will be very different by the time molecular assembly is something we can do at home.</span></font></div><div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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?).</span></font></div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div></div></blockquote></div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I was thinking the technology for average joe & jane (aka 'proles') to have a magical countertop maker that's able to produce any molecules you want by pushing a button is far off. </span></font></div></div></blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is what I had in mind:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/lee_cronin_print_your_own_medicine?language=en" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">https://www.ted.com/talks/lee_cronin_print_your_own_medicine?language=en</a></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/08/11/why-it-matters-that-the-fda-just-approved-the-first-3d-printed-drug/?utm_term=.3c8bbddee402" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/08/11/why-it-matters-that-the-fda-just-approved-the-first-3d-printed-drug/</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-Henry</span></div></div></body></html>