http://tisiwoota.blogsome.com/2005/05/31/how-a-plant-is-not-like-a-watch/ The Interesting Stuff I'm Working On Or Thinking About Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:54:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha http://tisiwoota.blogsome.com/2005/05/31/how-a-plant-is-not-like-a-watch/#comment-65 Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:32:39 +0100 http://tisiwoota.blogsome.com/2005/05/31/how-a-plant-is-not-like-a-watch/#comment-65 Update: Self-replicating technology is apparently really taking off-- someone at the University of Bath has <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/06/02/tech.reprap/index.html" rel="nofollow">invented a self-replicating robot</a>... and moreover, has made the instructions open-source. Of course, this reproduction would not be uncontrolled, and would be limited by availability of materials, but still it seems that we may not be that far away from the legal issues that have arisen with plants... Update: Self-replicating technology is apparently really taking off– someone at the University of Bath has invented a self-replicating robot… and moreover, has made the instructions open-source. Of course, this reproduction would not be uncontrolled, and would be limited by availability of materials, but still it seems that we may not be that far away from the legal issues that have arisen with plants…

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