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Originally Posted by blankall
I did read it. They glossed over how they plan to reproduce complex organic molecules in a machine that the average consume can afford. There's some ability to "print" molecules. But what they are actually doing is using precursors to create related chemical compounds. These occur in large and expensive machines located in labs.
I mean it would be great if we had some Star Trek like technology where you could just ask for whatever beverage you wanted on the spot, but it sounds like the technology is a long ways away from there.
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It's really just exploring a concept they've shown to work in one instance(wine). Presumably you'd have cartridges with the precursors, and be able to make whatever those chemicals could. So it's an interesting idea, but ya, this would be a long ways down the road. If they tried to make it in the next 5 years, it'd be a watered down not very useful expensive device, I suspect. To me the interesting part is re-creating natural product flavours with a limited number of chemicals. I know they already do this, but the idea of doing it at home from a machine is kinda neat.