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Re: Towards the *fully* 3D-printed electric cars.

From jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Newsgroups sci.space.policy, sci.physics, rec.arts.sf.science, sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: Towards the *fully* 3D-printed electric cars.
Date 2017-07-16 20:29 +0000
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In sci.physics Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> wrote:
> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> 
>>How much better, faster, and cheaper has the pencil become since it's
>>invention in the 16th century?
> 
> Pencils that don't need to be sharpened are only about a century old.
> (Electronics company Sharp started that way.)

They are a different thing but they haven't changed much since invention
either.

> When I was a kid, my mother had one that cost $18 and took a minute or
> so to withdraw a new lead into its body.  Other than lacking the
> magnet (hers could be stuck onto stuff for convenient access), better
> pencils are now about the price of six wooden pencils.  I haven't
> sharpened a pencil other than on an "emergency" basis for 45 years.
> 
> Pencils were a nickel when I was a kid and a dime now.  Since I was a
> kid, the value of that dime has decreased tenfold.  So pencils are now
> five times cheaper than in the sixties.  I assume technology did it.
> (Perhaps containerized TRANSPORT technology to bring us the product of
> chinese semi-slaves.)

Mass production in huge quantities by automated traditional manufacturing
techniques and cheap shipping from China.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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Re: Towards the *fully* 3D-printed electric cars. David Mitchell <david.robot.mitchell@gmail.com> - 2017-07-12 07:04 +0100
  Re: Towards the *fully* 3D-printed electric cars. jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2017-07-12 17:48 +0000
    Re: Towards the *fully* 3D-printed electric cars. David Mitchell <david.robot.mitchell@gmail.com> - 2017-07-13 06:50 +0100
      Re: Towards the *fully* 3D-printed electric cars. jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2017-07-13 17:29 +0000
        Re: Towards the *fully* 3D-printed electric cars. David Mitchell <david.robot.mitchell@gmail.com> - 2017-07-14 05:51 +0100
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