Questions
and Answers. A phantasy conversation about physics.
My robot: Hi are you also a robot? You’re face looks a
bit humanlike. What is you’ re name?
© H.M.
Thomas.
Part 3 . About 3D printing in the far future..
My robot meets a
robot friend; an intermezzo.
This
is a phantasy about developments in physics. Here below now and then we will
look at a special topic of physics and try to unfold developments, tendencies
and boundaries of the progress in physics. What to think of quantum mechanics,
sustainable energy, mass or nano- technology?
Also technological inventions come by now and then. All in a fanciful
way. Here
part 3 about 3- dimensional printing machines.
The idea that three-
dimensional printing is possible, already existed for more than a decade. One makes a 3D object after a model by laying down
one layer after another using powder or a liquefied synthetic material. metal or whatever
other utility. Recently printing machines for the consumer market become more
and more available. As for many new inventions some unforeseen side effects may
come along as well. Some technology assessment
seems therefore useful. Here follows a phantasy about such a 3D machine in the
future.
General
questions I asked my robot. He gives answers. Does he know something I don’t?
We try to judge what is going on
in science. Where do we come from, where can we go?
I
think I often tend, although being unaware of it, to combine present
developments with what I myself like science and technology to be. A robotic
creature however, if he is programmed the right way, may be able to do
something extra. A robot can extrapolate tendencies and combine much more bits
and pieces much faster and in a more non- contradictory way than I can. He just
uses logic. I hope.
Part 3 An Intermezzo about 3D
printing: “My robot at the left, meets a
robot friend at the right”.
A conversation follows. 
The Robot friend: Hello. I’m your
friend. I’m also a robot, but I’m a 3D printed robot. I’m made by a machine, a 3D printer. I have no name,
because I’m jobless now.
My robot: What is so special about
you? And why have you one white hand at
you’re right side and a grey hand at the left side?
Well, I worked as an industrial
robot and had to paint metal plates white colored. I got a self- learning
module plugged- in to do that job. But I could not tell the metal plate from my
own right hand. They both looked somehow
as the same material. Therefore I painted my own right hand white instead of
the metal plate it held. It seemed to be
a serious mistake. They took the module away from me. That is why I’m jobless
now.
My robot: That does not feel good I
suppose. May be those self- learning
modules are no good for us robots. One can learn bizarre things not compatible
with the purpose of our other software programs.
My robot friend: Oh yes. Once there
was plugged in an extra module into my
motherboard. It was a unit for assistance with gardening purposes. But walking
around a garden it was raining and raining, everything was very wet. I fell in
a water puddle. Then short- circuiting made me being switched off. I was taken
from the job permanently. Humans do not know how difficult it is what to learn
oneself and what not using unfamiliar programming. Besides what looks good one
time, is not good another time. How to decide what to do? I make mistakes.
My robot: Humans have a lot to learn
yet. Don’t you think?
The Robot friend: Certainly. I have to
go now. I must rest. May be I have a burn- out. Bye, bye.
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