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With all the media attention and hype associated with 3-d printing and nano-tech materials it is easy to forget how useful ancient technologies like lost wax casting, solar heating, and glass truly are.

In last night’s State of the Union address, president Obama mentioned 3D Printing techniology briefly and called for the creation of 15 regional hubs to promote innovation in manufacturing technologies in the United States. Here’s the excerpt.

The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that enables fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.

This paper reports on the development of a “valve-based cell printer that has been validated to print highly viable cells in programmable patterns from two different bio-inks with independent control of the volume of each droplet

Well known cyberpunk author John Shirley recently gave a talk at TEDx Brussels in which he discusses two ideas of The Singularity, one true and one false, as well as a dark vision of the near future.

In “The Next Industrial Revolution”, Chris Anderson (former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED, now CEO, 3D Robotics) and Carl Bass, explore how 3D printing and accessible CAD software could disrupt manufacturing and supply chains.

All conflict arises from scarcity but scarcity won’t last forever, therefore it’s wrong to base our actions on temporary conflict. We need to look wisely at the future and act accordingly. When everyone is aware of inevitable Post-Scarcity, we can all direct our efforts towards accelerating its arrival.

Has biopunk gone big time or just jumped the shark? Biohacking and biopunk are hot topics these days with recent coverage popping up in mainstream tech news sources such as Fast Company, Forbes, The New York Times, and even the Wall Street Journal. Here’s a quick survey of a couple of cool projects happening right now in the biopunk and biohacking scenes, plus an interview with Lukas Dimoveo from Grindhouse.

Ben Goertzel converses with Hugo de Garis on his transhumanist argument for the reality of a Creator.