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I guess I ought to have taken Bruce Sterling's advice concerning Mark Stahlman, but as my text on 3D printing is now circulating on the nettime-list and is being commented on, I feel obliged to make some clarifications. An original version of the text was published in Re-public (http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=5399), and is together with another text "Atoms want to be free too" (http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/288), a better starting point for whoever might want to raise objections against me, as I there get to develop my arguments at some length. The bottom-line is this: there are contradicting potentials in 3D printing (just as there were in N/C machines, though only the union-busting, labour-hostile designs were invested in, by MIT and others), hence it is meaningless to take a stand (for or against) 3D printing as such. What is needed is to support those fringe groups who are trying to push the technology in a good (or, least bad) direction. If labour is going to be made free (as in gratis), then so should the atoms. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org