by Xavier Cirera and William Francis Maloney · 14 Jun 2017 · 373pp · 109,964 words
surprise to students of history. The wheelbarrow, soil science, cardboard, the magnetic compass, deep drilling for natural gas, knowledge of circulation of blood, paper and printing, gun powder, and hundreds of other inventions are attributed to the Chinese. It was the Europeans who were playing catch up in the Middle Ages. In
by Dominic Frisby · 1 Nov 2014 · 233pp · 66,446 words
could also buy a guide to hacking ATMs, $100 of counterfeit dollars for $35 together with instructions on how to spend them, and ‘untraceable, 3D-printed guns’. At the point of final edit, there now seem to be 25 different sites. Meanwhile, of the above, Black Market Reloaded has shut down, TorMarket
by David Golumbia · 25 Sep 2016 · 87pp · 25,823 words
). Typically hype-filled presentations include Naughton (2016), Swan (2015), and Tapscott and Tapscott (2016). 2. For background on Cody Wilson and his promotion of 3D-printed guns, see Silverman (2013). 3. Some of the few exceptions to this rule in scholarship—political analysis that acknowledges the parallels or connections between Bitcoin discourse
by David Levinson and Kevin Krizek · 17 Aug 2015 · 257pp · 64,285 words
/2012/12/11/3d-printing-towards-freightless-future-510 152 Andy Greenberg (2014-05-14) How 3D Printed Guns Evolved into Serious Weapons in Just One Year. Wired http://www.wired.com/2014/05/3-D-printed-guns/ 153 DARPA stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; it is a unit of the Department
by Ray Kurzweil · 25 Jun 2024
challenge for gun control and allow the creation of firearms with no serial numbers, making it more difficult for law enforcement to trace crimes. 3D-printed guns made from advanced plastics could even be used to bypass metal detectors. This will require a thoughtful reevaluation of current regulations and policies. 3D Printing
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.law/blog/3d-printing-challenges-patent-law. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 276 Jake Hanrahan, “3D-Printed Guns Are Back, and This Time They Are Unstoppable,” Wired, May 20, 2019, https://www.wired.co.uk/article/3d-printed-guns-blueprints. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 277 For more information on how this works, see Innovative Manufacturing
by Andrew Keen · 5 Jan 2015 · 361pp · 81,068 words
Guthrie Weissman, “Working Families Party Joins the Anti-Airbnb Brigade,” Pando Daily, May 2, 2014. 51 Kevin Collier, “Philadelphia Jumps the Gun, Bans 3-D-Printed Guns,” Daily Dot, November 22, 2013. 52 John Sunyer, “No Comment?,” Financial Times, May 24, 2014. 53 Associated Press, “‘Revenge Porn’ Outlawed in California,” Guardian, October
by Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Teran · 14 Jul 2021 · 326pp · 91,532 words
economic aid programme involved the printing of banknotes: the Fed was ‘firing up the printing press’, the European Central Bank (ECB) was ‘priming the money-printing gun’ or, for those of a more digital bent, the ‘Money Printer Go Brrr’ meme. Evocative, but misleading; just as ‘sending’ money isn’t what banks
by Adam Greenfield · 29 May 2017 · 410pp · 119,823 words
Silverman, “A Gun, A Printer, An Ideology,” New Yorker, May 7, 2013; See also Defense Distributed, defdist.org. 36.Liat Clark, “Australian Police: Exploding 3D Printed Gun Will Kill You And Your Victim,” Wired, May 24, 2013. 37.Robert Beckhusen, “3-D Printer Company Seizes Machine From Desktop Gunsmith,” Wired, October 1
by Cody Wilson · 10 Oct 2016 · 246pp · 70,404 words
the rediscovery of the personal use of tools and industrial equipment. They otherwise preached a kind of democratic celebration, but when it came to the printed gun idea, I saw only a patchwork apologetics for Stratasys. Some went so far as to say that the printer repossession was in fact the movement
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people. But I thought the straight, pragmatic response missed the philosophical beauty of the scenario. Laws like the Undetectable Firearms Act and the proposed anti–printed gun bills to come were announced more as theater than anything else. I hoped we could just laugh off government responses like these. What were the
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me. As I checked out with him, I saw the manager in the back at his computer. “Hey, have you guys heard of the 3D printed gun stuff ?” The manager looked at me only briefly. “What’s that?” asked the man at the counter, handing me my bag and receipt. “Well,” I
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, “talk of traditional rebellion is fine, but when someone drops that first genetic bomb? Or what if a terrorist is the first to use your printed gun?” “A system that can stop that is a bigger threat than the threat,” I said. Soon we were talking about Sandy Hook Promise. The next
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at DEFCAD. A week before my next trip, someone sent me a letter DCCC chairman Israel had been circulating. Co-Sponsor Legislation to Ban 3D Printed Guns From: The Honorable Steve Israel Date: 4/10/2013 Co-sponsor the Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act Dear Colleague: I urge you to co-sponsor legislation
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magazines for the AR-15 and AK-47. Recently, the group’s founder has stated that they will be able to produce a working 3D printed gun by the end of April. These developments beg the question—what good will gun safety laws do if guns and gun parts can be printed
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at the conference was Abe Reichenthal, the CEO of 3D Systems, who, among other things, assured the prospective investors and industry reps in attendance that printed guns weren’t possible and weren’t going to happen. The room was half-empty at my own talk, but afterward the TV crews rushed me
by Ian Demartino · 2 Feb 2016 · 296pp · 86,610 words
of Memorydealers.com, one of the first sites to accept Bitcoin, and founder of the company Blockchain. Cody Wilson: Dark Wallet co-creator and 3D-printed gun designer. Craig Wright: A recent addition to the search for Satoshi Nakamoto. Wired magazine recently reported he was “probably” the creator of Bitcoin (or wanted
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, despite having raised a lot of it. It is not currently in a usable state. Co-invented by Cody Wilson, the creator of the 3D-printed gun, and Amir Taaki, the creator of Darkmarket, Darkwallet is a decentralized mixing service. Both of its inventors have anti-authoritarian, pro-individual freedom histories and
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sovereignty.”7 The same sort of philosophy was behind the Silk Road. It also continues to motivate Brian Hoffman’s OpenBazaar, Cody Wilson’s 3D-printed gun, Darkwallet, and a dozen other tools that scare the shit out of people who have devoted their whole lives to upholding the status quo. The
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