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Come and Take It: The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free
by Cody Wilson
Published 10 Oct 2016

He told me a hobbyist had pointed him to public promotions Stratasys had done with the big names in gun manufacturing. “And do you know Abe Reichenthal?” Beckhusen asked me. “He’s a CEO.” “Uh, the guy from 3D Systems?” “Yes. He’s got this open letter in a trade magazine from August where he calls on everyone in the industry to stop people from printing guns. Did you know about it?” “I didn’t, but it makes perfect sense,” I said. “Look, I’ve been telling everyone since Indiegogo pulled us down that it was going to be this, quote, private sector that we’d have to overcome first. That Stratasys and these other guys act this way doesn’t surprise me.

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The 3D printing world intersected with a group of self-identified “Makers,” modern successors of the backpage DIY culture, who loaded online comment sections and forums with the liturgy of their movement, which as far as I could tell was mostly about 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’s will being done, that they had expected, even demanded Stratasys do it. The company best represented the Makers’ interests and was protecting their progress.

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Yet he seemed to take a particular delight in a final question, a kind of wheedling mirth behind the words: “And say someone should kill you with your invention?” When it was posted, the piece itself drove the points home well enough. The 3D printing machines will be capable of reproducing themselves. No place in the federal budget for an ATF agent in every home. Kids printing guns while their blissfully unaware parents think their young ’uns are playing on the computer. A prohibitionist is quoted as calling the Internet a permanent “gun show loophole.” And as expected, the article reproduced one of the more provocative of my public statements. From the original Wiki Weapon video: What’s great about the Wiki Weapon is it only needs to be lethal once.

Free Money for All: A Basic Income Guarantee Solution for the Twenty-First Century
by Mark Walker
Published 29 Nov 2015

“The owl of Minerva takes its flight only when the shades of night are gathering,” Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosophy of Right (London: George Bell and Sons, 1896). 32. “USDA Economic Research Service—Detail,” accessed May 18, 2015, http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/detail. aspx?chartId=40094&ref=collection&embed=True. 33. Drexler, Nanosystems. 34. Andy Greenberg, “How 3-D Printed Guns Evolved Into Serious Weapons in Just One Year,” WIRED, May 15, 2014, http://www. wired.com/2014/05/3d-printed-guns/. 9 Concluding Unscientific Postscript 1. For some interesting thoughts on the political feasibility in the UK of a BIG at present, see Donald Hirsch, “Could a ‘Citizen’s Income’ Work?” (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2015), http://www.jrf.org. uk/sites/files/jrf/citizens-income-full.pdf. 2.

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Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Green, Thomas Hill. Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation and Other Writings. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Greenberg, Andy. “How 3-D Printed Guns Evolved Into Serious Weapons in Just One Year.” WIRED, May 15, 2014. http://www.wired. com/2014/05/3d-printed-guns/. Growing a Nation. “Historical Time Line,” 2005. http://www.agclassroom. org/gan/timeline/. Gruber, Jon, and Emmanuel Saez. “The Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence and Implications.” Journal of Public Economics 84, 1 (2002): 1–32. Haybron, D.

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It
by Marc Goodman
Published 24 Feb 2015

,” Forbes, March 6, 2012. 82 The Gartner group: Gartner, “Gartner Says Uses of 3D Printing Will Ignite Major Debate on Ethics and Regulation,” Gartner.​com, Jan. 29, 2014. 83 Digital manufacturing will also be a boon: Drew Prindle, “KeyMe Joins Forces with Shapeways to Bring You Custom 3D-Printed Key Copies,” Digital Trends, Dec. 17, 2013. 84 There are apps too: Ann Givens and Chris Glorioso, “New Technology Could Let Thieves Copy Keys,” NBC New York, May 21, 2014. 85 In 2012, cops uncovered: Andy Greenberg, “Hacker Opens High Security Handcuffs with 3D-Printed and Laser-Cut Keys,” Forbes, July 16, 2012. 86 While the potential humanitarian benefits: Tim Adams, “The ‘Chemputer’ That Could Print Out Any Drug,” Guardian, July 21, 2012. 87 Wilson created the Wiki Weapon Project: Carole Cadwalladr, “Meet Cody Wilson, Creator of the 3D-Gun, Anarchist, Libertarian,” Guardian, Feb. 8, 2014. 88 The lower receiver: Andy Greenberg, “Here’s What It Looks Like to Fire a (Partly) 3D-Printed Gun,” Forbes, Dec. 3, 2012. 89 In May 2013: Andy Greenberg, “Meet the ‘Liberator’: Test-Firing the World’s First Fully 3D-Printed Gun,” Forbes, May 5, 2013. 90 Wilson’s efforts have left: Andy Greenberg, “How 3-D Printed Guns Evolved into Serious Weapons in Just One Year,” Wired, May 15, 2014. 316 These plastic firearms: Cheryl K. Chumley, “Israeli TV Crew Sneaks Printed 3-D Gun into Knesset—Twice,” Washington Times, July 4, 2013. 91 Other repositories: Greenberg, “How 3-D Printed Guns Evolved into Serious Weapons in Just One Year.” 92 The FBI’s Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center: Aliya Sternstein, “The FBI Is Getting Its Own, Personal 3D Printer for Studying Bombs,” Next gov, June 13, 2014.

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Among his 3-D printed creations was a lower receiver for an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle from which he successfully fired six hundred rounds of ammunition. The lower receiver is the key part of the firearm and the only one regulated by law; the rest of the parts in many states can be obtained without background checks or even identification. In May 2013, Wilson also designed the Liberator, the world’s first fully 3-D-printed gun, designed to fire standard .380 handgun bullets, and 100,000 people around the world downloaded the drawings. When asked by the press how he felt about his accomplishment, Wilson replied that now “anywhere there’s a computer and an Internet connection, there would be the promise of a gun.” Wilson’s efforts have left Congress in the dust, which failed to pass introduced legislation prohibiting 3-D-printed weapons.

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Wilson’s efforts have left Congress in the dust, which failed to pass introduced legislation prohibiting 3-D-printed weapons. These plastic firearms can be near impossible to detect on standard metal detectors, as a team of Israeli investigative reporters proved by smuggling a 3-D-printed gun into the highly secure Knesset building, twice. In the meantime, dozens of other digital gunsmiths have improved upon the original Liberator and even posted their own digital gun files online. Other repositories for online designs for 3-D weapons have been created, including those that have plans for hand grenades and mortar rounds.

The Bitcoin Guidebook: How to Obtain, Invest, and Spend the World's First Decentralized Cryptocurrency
by Ian Demartino
Published 2 Feb 2016

Ross Ulbricht: Was accused and convicted of being Dread Pirate Roberts; his case is under appeal. Roger Ver: Angel investor and Bitcoin evangelist; CEO 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 the world to think he was). In May 2016, he attempted to prove that he had created Bitcoin by signing a message using an account associated with Satoshi Nakamoto.

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One of the most promising technologies in this specific niche of the Bitcoin ecosystem was Darkwallet, but it seems development has halted on the project as the developers ran out of money, 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 politics. Nevertheless, their projects shouldn’t be considered as radical as they are often painted by the mainstream media.

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The documentary Deep Web, directed by Alex Winter, opens with a quote from OpenBazaar developer Amir Taaki: “The fascists, they have resources, but we have imagination. We are making the tools to take back our 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 Silk Road was an unregulated marketplace and a gathering place for like-minded individuals, many of whom were true believers in the philosophy described by Amir Taaki in the Deep Web documentary.

The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport: Second Edition
by David Levinson and Kevin Krizek
Published 17 Aug 2015

Connnexion on 16th of December 2014, URL: http://en.forumviesmobiles.org/video/2012/12/11/3d-printing-towards-freightless-future-510 http://en.forumviesmobiles.org/video/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 of Defense, as driverless cars have obvious military application. 154 Carnegie Mellon teams took second and third place. The Gray Insurance Company from New Orleans and Oshkosh Trucks also completed the course. 155 Markoff, John (2010) Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic.

Meantime: The Brilliant 'Unputdownable Crime Novel' From Frankie Boyle
by Frankie Boyle
Published 20 Jul 2022

Grass, pills, uppers, downers. Loads of American prescription shit.’ Caroline was kind of a drug dealer, but it was really a hobby. Mainly, she managed bands to various degrees of failure with a joyous, misplaced optimism. Donnie was still talking. ‘She’s autistic, as you know, and she’s labelled everything exactly with a printing gun.’ He leaned on these last words heavily, as if they were a key detail. ‘I don’t see what her being autistic has got to do with anything.’ ‘I’m not judging. I think it’s good people open up more about their mental health now – it helps you know who to avoid … anyway, think about it. We do our own investigation.

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There were packs of tramadol, light brain damage in a bullet-hard lozenge; and a sheet of acid, each tab marked with a burning peace flag. Donnie stopped and beamed at me, then threw into the middle of all the little boxes, packets and bottles something that made them all bounce up off the bed. It was a solid brick of cocaine, long and heavy. I knew this because it had the word ‘Cocaine’ written on it with a printing gun. ‘What the fuck? That’s a lot more than two grand’s worth of coke, Donnie, no?’ I’d never really had any interest in coke: experiencing life more intensely was sort of the opposite of what I wanted to do. ‘Yeah, I got the impression it was a closing-down sale – everything must go! We can resell it, and fund the investigation!’

The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism
by David Golumbia
Published 25 Sep 2016

For thoughtful and critical overviews of blockchain technology viewed separately from Bitcoin, see DuPont and Maurer (2015) and Grimmelmann and Narayanan (2016). 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 and far-right political beliefs—include Maurer, Nelms, and Swartz (2013), Payne (2013), and Scott (2014). Robinson (2014) is the best introduction to the general system of beliefs found among Bitcoin promoters.

Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing
by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman
Published 20 Nov 2012

Charles Moore with Cassandra Phillips, Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans (Avery, 2011). 10 Joris Peels, “3D printing vs Mass Production: Part IV More beautiful landfill.” i.materialise blog (June 29, 2011). http://i.materialise.com/blog/entry/3d-printing-vs-mass-production-part-iv-more-beautiful-landfill 11 American Chemistry Council, “2005 National Post-Consumer Plastics Bottle Recycling Report” (2005). Chapter 12 1 United States Secret Service. “Know Your Money.” http://www.secretservice.gov/money_technologies.shtml 2 Sebastian Anthony, “The world’s first 3D-printed gun.” ExtremeTech (July 26, 2012). http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/133514-the-worlds-first-3d-printed-gun 3 Mark D. Symes, Philip J. Kitson, Jun Yan, Craig J. Richmond, Geoffrey J. T. Cooper, Richard W. Bowman, Turlif Vilbrandt, and Leroy Cronin, “Integrated 3D-printed reactionware for chemical synthesis and analysis.” Nature Chemistry, 4 (2012): 349-354. doi:10.1038/nchem.1313 4 Nikki Olson, “3D Printing Laboratories: The Age of DIY Designer Drugs Begins.”

The Pay Off: How Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything
by Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Teran
Published 14 Jul 2021

Again, the short answer is yes. The metaphors around monetary policy are unhelpful here. Many of the headlines used to describe the Covid-19 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 do to make payments, ‘printing’ isn’t the way that central banks create money. Paradoxically, printing banknotes and putting them into circulation through the banking system does not typically increase the money supply.

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Salaries in Albania, drastic gap between the minimum and maximum pay (https://balkaneu.com/salaries-albania-drastic-gap-minimum-maximum-pay/) Data on cash usage in various countries from McKinsey: ‘Attacking the cost of cash’ (2018). www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/attacking-the-cost-of-cash For more on access to cash in Bristol, see: ‘Mapping the availability of cash – a case study of Bristol’s financial infrastructure’, University of Bristol, http://www.bris.ac.uk/geography/research/pfrc/themes/finexc/availability-of-cash/ Figures on cost of cash taken from: ‘Access to Cash Review’, final report (2019). www.accesstocash.org.uk/media/1087/final-report-final-web.pdf For the quotes on printing money, see: www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/upshot/coronavirus-fed-extraordinary-response.html; https://twitter.com/AsILayHodling/status/1241008225924845568; www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ecb-qe/ecb-primes-money-printing-gun-to-combat-coronavirus-idUSKBN21D0J4 For the story on Sweden’s cash decline and resistance, see www.spink.com/media/view?id=338; Kontant Upproret, ‘The cash uprising – the voice of cash in society’ (www.kontantupproret.se) Björn Eriksson was quoted in D. Crouch (2018). ‘Being cash-free puts us at risk of attack: Swedes turn against risk of cashlessness’, Guardian, 3 April (www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/03/being-cash-free-puts-us-at-risk-of-attack-swedes-turn-against-cashlessness) For the UK Chancellor’s 2020 announcement on access to cash, see: www.gov.uk/government/publications/budget-2020-documents/budget-2020 For Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria and the Fed’s response, see: www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/us/puerto-rico-shortages-cash.html; www.americanbanker.com/news/feds-emergency-cash-plan-swings-into-action-in-puerto-rico Chapter 7 For the story on BankAmericard and Joe Williams, see: Joe Nocera (1994).

The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
by Ray Kurzweil
Published 25 Jun 2024

BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 275 Elizabeth Ferrill and Robert Yoches, “IP Law and 3D Printing: Designers Can Work Around Lack of Cover,” Wired, September 2013, https://www.wired.com/insights/2013/09/ip-law-and-3d-printing-designers-can-work-around-lack-of-cover; Michael K. Henry, “How 3D Printing Challenges Existing Intellectual Property Law,” Henry Patent Law Firm, August 13, 2018, https://henry.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 and Construction Research Centre, “Future of Construction Process: 3D Concrete Printing,” Concrete Printing, YouTube video, May 30, 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?

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All of this requires new approaches to protect intellectual property.[276] Another troubling implication is that decentralized manufacturing will allow civilians to create weapons that they otherwise couldn’t easily access. Files are already circulating on the internet that enable people to print the parts to assemble their own guns.[277] This will present a 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 of Buildings Three-dimensional printing is usually associated with manufacturing small objects, such as tools or medical implants, but it can also be used to create larger structures, like buildings.

The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
by Justin E. H. Smith
Published 22 Mar 2022

And much less or much more mysteriously (depending on your philosophical commitments), when we pay bills online, when we issue such speech acts as promises or threats via Facebook or Twitter, when we tell our loved ones we love them over Skype or Zoom, we are bringing about real transformations in the world, in our financial situation, in our social standing, in our hearts. All of this is conducted through electrical pulses, but it is not all mere “simulation.” The remote-controlled vibrator or the 3D-printed gun are only further twists on a power we had already mastered and were already exercising, to effect world-changing action at a distance. Nor is it clear that the manner in which internet-mediated representations are delivered to us as users distinguishes this tool in any significant way from other scientific instruments that are sometimes thought to give us more immediate access to the thing we wish to observe.

Bitcoin: The Future of Money?
by Dominic Frisby
Published 1 Nov 2014

When I first wrote this chapter I could find 17 different so-called ‘dark sites’, where you can buy drugs with bitcoins on the Tor network: Silk Road 2.0, Black Market Reloaded, Pandora Market, Agora Market, TorMarket, The Marketplace (the M of ‘Market’ is the McDonald’s M), the Three Hares Bazaar, the RoadSilk, White Rabbit Marketplace, Outlaw Market, Bungee Discreet Global Mailorder, Blue Sky, Modern Culture, Budster, Dutchy and Utopia. At Utopia I noticed you 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 disappeared in a scam, as did Budster, Three Hares doesn’t seem to have ever actually operated, RoadSilk has renamed itself Pirate Market, White Rabbit I’m advised is currently a scam, and Utopia has been busted by Dutch police.

For the Win
by Cory Doctorow
Published 11 May 2010

Normally it just renders people immobile, but one in a million has a reaction like this. It’s just bad luck that Hilda was one of them.” “She was gassed?” “They all were. There was a hell of a fight, as I understand it. It really looks like it was the cops’ fault. Someone told them that there were printed guns in the ride-location and they used extreme and disproportionate force.” “I see,” Perry said. His blood whooshed in his ears. Printed guns? No frigging way. Sure, ray-guns in some of the exhibits. But nothing that fired anything. He felt tears begin to stream down his face. The lawyer moved to his sofa and put her arm around his shoulders. “She’s going to be fine,” Candice said.

The Dark Net
by Jamie Bartlett
Published 20 Aug 2014

Digging around the Bitcoin protocols, he noticed it wasn’t quite as secure and anonymous as everyone thought. It was a brilliant invention, of course, but with a few additions could be made even more subversive. That’s when he came up with the idea of Dark Wallet. He moved to Calafou, brought in Pablo alongside Cody Wilson – the American crypto-anarchist who created the first 3D printed gun – and together they raised $50,000 in a month via the crowdfunding site Indiegogo. Although Amir’s technical know-how and experience are admired, his ideals and motivations have put him on the fringes of what has become an increasingly respectable Bitcoin community. Dark Wallet has pitted itself directly against organisations seeking to capitalise and control Bitcoin and its market.

The Internet Is Not the Answer
by Andrew Keen
Published 5 Jan 2015

Schneiderman, “Taming the Digital Wild West,” New York Times, April 22, 2014. 49 Carolyn Said, “S.F. Ballot Would Severely Limit Short-Term Rentals,” SFGate, April 29, 2014. 50 Cale 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 1, 2013. 54 Pamela Druckerman, “The French Do Buy Books. Real Books,” New York Times, July 9, 2014. 55 Andrew Wallenstein, “Cable Operator Pitching TV Industry on Plan to Convert Illegal Downloads to Legal Transaction Opportunities,” Variety, August 5, 2013, variety.com/2013/digital/news/comcast-developing-anti-piracy-alternative-to-six-strikes-exclusive-1200572790. 56 “Recording Industry Welcomes Support by Payment Providers to Tackle Illegal Online Sale of Unlicensed Music,” International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, March 2, 2011, ifpi.org/content/section_news/20110302.html. 57 Bill Rosenblatt, “Ad Networks Adopt Notice-and-Takedown for Ads on Pirate Sites,” Copyright and Technology Blog, July 21, 2013, copyrightandtechnology.com/category/economics. 58 Victoria Espinel, “Coming Together to Combat Online Piracy and Counterfeiting,” Whitehouse.gov, July 15, 2013. 59 Kyle Alspach, “Steve Case: Silicon Valley Has Wrong Mindset for Next Internet Revolution,” Techflash, October 10, 2013. 60 Mariana Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs.

Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
by Eddie Robson
Published 27 Jun 2022

“You did say you were hoping it would be pan-cultural,” says Lydia. “But with the emphasis very much on performing arts.” Anders moves a bottle aside and reaches to the back of the cabinet. “Theater, music, poetry, dance—” Then he spins around, a small pistol in his hand. He fires it and it makes the loud, hollow thok noise printed guns usually make. Lydia shouts Look out to Madison, forgetting she can’t do that anymore, and throws herself aside, landing on the beanbag. Her headache comes roaring back. Anders is a poor shot and his bullet embeds somewhere in the shoe display: he swings his gun around and finds Lydia again, but she rolls aside and his second shot buries itself in the beanbag.

Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve And/or Ruin Everything
by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith
Published 16 Oct 2017

Whether it would be easy to detect Bucket-of-Stuff-type material is a tougher question. And most of the world is not secured anyway. In a programmable matter world, a lone actor might download a program to make explosives or automatic weapons. That said, 3D printing has already made this sort of thing a concern. Attempts to ban, for instance, 3D printed guns have failed. This is mostly because it’s more or less impossible to stop someone from doing what they want in their own home. Whether this ease of creation actually results in greater danger to society is yet to be seen. Oh, and speaking of danger to society—perhaps some of you are worried we’ll create programmable matter that self-replicates, propagates throughout the world, and destroys everything.

Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
by Adam Greenfield
Published 29 May 2017

“Many 3D Patents Are Expiring Soon,” 3D Printing Industry, December 29, 2013, 3dprintingindustry.com. 32.Josef Průša, “Open Hardware Meaning,” September 20, 2012, josefprusa.cz/open-hardware-meaning/. 33.Johan Söderberg, Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software Movement, Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 34.Manon Walquan, “Un clitoris imprimé en 3D, une première en France,” Makery, July 26, 2016, makery.info/2016/07/26/un-clitoris-imprime-en-3d-une-premiere-en-france/; Carrefour Numérique, “Les réalisations du FabLab: Clitoris,” July 27, 2016, carrefour-numerique.cite-sciences.fr/fablab/wiki/doku.php?id=projetspercent3Aclitoris#photos See also ufunk.net/en/tech/imprimer-un-clitoris-en-3d/. 35.Jacob 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, 2012. 38.Ghost Gunner, ghostgunner.net. 39.Ateneus de Fabricació. “Materialitzem idees cocreem el nostre entorn,” undated, ateneusdefabricacio.barcelona.cat/. 40.Pau Rodrîguez, “Un centre internacional de producció digital es converteix en Banc d’Aliments improvisat,” El Diario, August 20, 2013. 41.Richard Sennett, The Craftsman.

Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World
by Bruce Schneier
Published 3 Sep 2018

As we’ve learned from the experiences of the music and movie industries over the past two decades, we can’t stop people from making and playing unauthorized copies of digital files. More generally, a software system cannot be constrained, because the software used for constraining can be repurposed, rewritten, or revised. Just as it’s impossible to create a music player that refuses to play pirated music files, it’s impossible to create a 3D printer that refuses to print gun parts. Sure, it’s easy to prevent the average person from doing any of these things, but it’s impossible to stop an expert. And once that expert writes software to bypass whatever controls are in place, everyone else can do it, too. And this doesn’t take much time. Even the best DRM systems don’t last 24 hours.

The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey
Published 27 Jan 2015

Dark Wallet was a response to that. Elsewhere, Wilson was quoted describing it as a way to “mock every attempt to sprinkle [bitcoin] with regulation,” and to say to government, “‘You’ve set yourself up to regulate bitcoin. Regulate this.’” Wilson, who’d previously made a name for himself by designing the first 3-D-printed gun, had no qualms, he said, about his project becoming a vehicle for money laundering, drug dealing, kiddie porn, or terrorism. His response: “Liberty is a dangerous thing.” This was hardly a way to take bitcoin into the mainstream, but that wasn’t his objective. If Dark Wallet achieved freedom for only those at the fringes of society, so be it.

Aurora
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Published 6 Jul 2015

At this point, communication throughout the ship was still close to normal, by way of individual phones; but those arrested and confined were having their wristpads and other devices taken away or disabled electronically, so that they were losing the ability to discuss the situation among themselves. However, in the midst of all this, the first time one of the stayers armed with a printed gun actually fired it, trying to shoot a young man who had punched his way free of his captors and started running away, the gun itself exploded. The person who fired it lost most of his hand and had to have his arm tourniqueted before being carried to the nearest infirmary. Blood and severed fingers were scattered all over the tunnel between Nova Scotia and Olympia, leaving the people in that lock stunned at the sight.