Accelerating Interoperablity

This was written by Giulio Prisco, a scientist in Madrid, who has some interesting insights about the drive towards interoperability:

“Besides the virtualization of reality, there is an important trend toward the realization of virtuality, with technologies that permit giving physical reality to information and virtual objects. The WRLDs system  allows users to generate both virtual 3D and physical objects from their trading data to create a shareable social object from the symbolic language of trading. This is an example of desktop manufacturing (3D printing, or fabbing) technology, which will soon have an impact comparable to that of personal computing in the 80s by enabling a personal manufacturing revolution: exchanging physical objects on the Internet with virtual creation at the sending end and physical print-on-demand at the receiving end, in other words a first example of interoperability between physical and virtual reality. In my article “Globalization and Open Source Nano Economy” on KurzweilAI, I try to imagine where this trend may lead: “Instead of shipping physical objects, their detailed design specification in a “Molecular Description Language” (MDL) will be transmitted over a global data grid evolved from today’s Internet and then physically “printed” by “nano printers” at remote sites”.”