Foam & Nemo by Mara Vissers / maravissers.nl
A set of 2 free tickets to enter the Dutch musea FOAM & NEMO. A map to find the best hotspots in the neighborhood.
Hear me out.
I think 3-D printers and pens are way cool, amazing, revolutionary. For sure! Eventually, everyone in the world should (and I believe, will) own one.
But here’s the thing: they should print with renewable materials, not a petroleum-based product.
We’re at the birthing moment for this new technology. A non-renewable resource is not the right first breath for something with such potential to become an integral part of our future to take.
One option: There are some really promising projects going on with organic materials. A renewable resource that is eco-friendly & easily sustainable.
Imagine 3-D printers, where you can literally grow your own base materials.
(No… seriously…stop…imagine the possibilities for just a minute or two…)
Progressive ideas like this are what we need to be committed to when new tech, like 3-D printing, is in its infancy. Otherwise, technology will only serve to help us with our apparent intent to drive our planet to destruction–and Humanity to extinction–at a faster & faster rate.
It’s not just 3-D printing, ya know? Major change has to happen. Maybe this can be the genesis point. Something has to be, right?
I think the core of this idea echoes stuff that a lot of people are feeling. Ya know, in general, just an “unease” with how things are and where we’ll end up if we keep making the same mistakes as always. And I believe there’s a reason we’re all feeling it now. As a society, a species, we are starting to understand we’re not the center of things–we’re a part of a much bigger system, but we’re the ones doing all the damage.
We’re nearing the critical point where something breaks, and a massive change sweeps through everything. Either we can actively be the ones to make it happen, or we can be the recipients of an inevitable (and probably unfavorable) change forced on us from the outside.
It’s in the air.
Can’t you sense it?
So, until we get our shit together, PLEASE DO NOT BUY A 3-D PRINTER.
