The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday May 12th, 2023
Are 3D Printers the future of assembly lines? by Joseph Gatt
The good: 3D printers can carve, paint, assemble, heat and cool, and assemble again, materials as diverse as textiles, rubber, china, metals (not quite yet for metals), chemicals, organic food components, plastic, tin, you name it.
The complicated: 3D printers demand a lot of expertise. Big brains need to play with the software to design and assemble products. As in design the product, insert the ingredients, code the software so the product components get assembled properly and get printed properly.
The bad: as of now, 3D printers, like paper printers, can only take one instruction at a time. You can’t really give 3D printers a series of products to carve and assemble and expect them to assemble each individual product in that order across time.
So, are 3D printers the future?
For what I’ve seen and heard, not really.
As of today (the day this paper was written: August 10, 2021) 3D printers are only really good when it comes to carving paper or china or perhaps glass, and painting paper and china. So you can make vases, statues, cardboards, books, souvenirs and the like, but not much else.
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Never in my life #poem by Bohdan Yuri
“Never in my life have I seen such an image.
if I only had known what expressions unfold
when I expose my regrets, so full of discontent,
to have conformed so easily, to losing my soul.”
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Kenneth Waltz: The Passing of the Second Generation of the Realists by Rene Wadlow
The death of Professor Kenneth Waltz on 12 May 2013 in New York City at the age of 88 marks the start of the passing of the second generation of the realist school in the study of international relations. The first generation was a trio marked by the politics of Europe between the two world wars: E.H. Carr (1), Frederick L. Schuman (2) and Hans Morgenthau (3). The second generation, also a trio, is marked by the start of the Cold War and a bi-polar balance-of-power: Kenneth Waltz (4), Henry Kissinger (5), and Stanley Hoffmann(6).
Waltz was often referred to as a “neorealist” to distinguish him from the writers of the first generation, especially from Hans Morgenthau , but the difference was more a question of age and formative experience than a real difference of approach, although Waltz was critical of Morgenthau’s ‘Germanic’ emphasis on ‘the will to power’ which motivates everyone but especially those in control of state policy.
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Ma-Siri & Alexa #59 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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