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• A friend of mine, Ed Davis, once pointed out the level of strategic replication in additive. I wasn’t aware of it before and haven’t been able to unsee it since....
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A friend of mine, Ed Davis, once pointed out the level of strategic replication in additive. I wasn’t aware of it before and haven’t been able to unsee it since. We can make most everything. And this is rather overwhelming. We can make implants, hearing aids, aircraft parts, toys; the mind boggles. And this vastness of possibility overwhelms us. I previously called this the Van Gogh’s Blank Canvas Problem in 2013. Overcome by the sheer possibility of a blank canvas with infinite paths and outcomes, we freeze in place. This problem is not sufficiently taken into account, and I think that it is a risk to our industry. I think that the strategic replication follows from the Blank Canvas Problem. Coupled with the Additive Chicken Coop, where we all watch each other while drinking the same Kool