“You’re printing DiaBs!”

“Not the whole thing,” Lester said. “A lot of the logic needs an FPGA burner. And we can’t do some of the conductive elements, either. But yeah, about 90 percent of the DiaB can be printed in a DiaB.”

Excerpt From: Doctorow, Cory. “Makers.” iBooks.

This week I have been thinking a lot about Indra’s net and the extension of one thing into the next.  We are like 3d printers.  We can produce, with help, new almost identical iterations of ourselves, and then these iterations can do the same.  We build 3d printers and they can build themselves.  We are related to most things in this world and our daily interactions with everything should reflect this relation.  If I’ve learned anything from my experience as an ethnographer it’s that we are all the same, 3d printers, technology, students and teachers.