of design and manufacturing in fiction ‘... the fiat of the Plurocracy went forth, and the small business men and manufacturers swamped him with a flood of notices that he must discontinue running their old advertisements’ The Iron Heel by Jack London The Iron Heel Tuesday, 11 October 2011
of design and manufacturing in fiction ‘And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.’ We by Yevgeny Zamyatin We Tuesday, 11 October 2011
of design and manufacturing in fiction ‘Cleanliness is next to fordliness.’ ‘strange to think that even in Our Ford's day most games were played without more apparatus... imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption.’ Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Brave New World Tuesday, 11 October 2011
of design and manufacturing in fiction ‘But actually, he thought as he readjusted the Ministry of Plenty's figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another...’ Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell 1984 Tuesday, 11 October 2011
of design and manufacturing in fiction ‘On the one hand, these things are networked volumetric printers, but on the other they are superb category busters that have achieved an entirely justifiable...market penetration Makers by Cory Doctorow Makers Tuesday, 11 October 2011
of design and manufacturing in fiction ‘He let the pictures of cloth designs flicker past his eyes while he let the persuasive voice of the catalog drone on until a pattern showed up which was distinctly unmilitary and not blue, whereupon he arrested the display and punched the combination for his size.’ Methuselah’s Children by Robert A. Heinlein Methuselah’s children Tuesday, 11 October 2011
of design and manufacturing in fiction ‘From cars to radios to fine glassware, the Biltong life forms could create beautiful, working copies. The survivors of war relied on the Biltong life forms to make copies - "prints" - of necessary objects.’ Pay for the Printer by Philip K. Dick Pay for the Printer Tuesday, 11 October 2011
of design and manufacturing in fiction ‘Why don't you just compile it?’ Harv said. ‘The M.C. can make wood.’ ‘It can make fake wood,’ Rita said, ‘but some people don't like fake things.’ Matter Compiler in The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age Tuesday, 11 October 2011
of design and manufacturing in fiction ‘...each lithocule knew exactly where it was supposed to go and what it was supposed to do. They were tetrahedral building blocks of calcium and carbon, the size of poppyseeds, each equipped with a power source, a brain and a navigational system.’ The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age Tuesday, 11 October 2011
of design and manufacturing in fiction ‘The law especially disna like your kind owning 3D printers, fabbers capable of taking a design template off a pirate website somewhere and extruding it to the real world to an accuracy of a few microns... the Polis don’t like unmonitored fabs.’ Rule 34 by Charles Stross Rule 34 Tuesday, 11 October 2011
of design and manufacturing in fiction ‘When the 'Drink' button is pressed it makes an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism... no- one knows quite why it does this because it then invariably delivers a cupful of liquid that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Tuesday, 11 October 2011
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