<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Mike Dougherty wrote:  <span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Right.  I expect our civilization will be very different by the time molecular assembly is something we can do at home.</span></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">​--------</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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?).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w​</div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 8:11 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_1289606751338791351WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> extropy-chat [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@<wbr>lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 30, 2017 4:43 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.<wbr>org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] non-physician heal thyself<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><span class=""><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Henry wrote:  </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">3D printing of drugs at home by end users will disrupt this.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></span><div><div id="m_1289606751338791351gmail-:1m9"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><div id="m_1289606751338791351gmail-:1m9"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div id="m_1289606751338791351gmail-:1m9"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><div id="m_1289606751338791351gmail-:1m9"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">bill w​</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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