You Could Soon Be Manufacturing Your Own Drugs—thanks To 3D Printing

[Mito]

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018...nufacturing-your-own-drugs-thanks-3d-printing

.....researchers have tailored a 3D printer to synthesize pharmaceuticals and other chemicals from simple, widely available starting compounds fed into a series of water bottle–size reactors. The work, they say, could digitize chemistry, allowing users to synthesize almost any compound anywhere in the world.

 

[DaveFoster]

Big Pharma: "Shut it down ASAP!" *patent acquired*

 

[Prosper]

allowing users to synthesize almost any compound anywhere in the world

What could go wrong? Just think how easily anyone willing will be able to damage the surrounding society, or even the whole planet, by the end of the century. For eons millions of misantrophists have wished for a button with which to end life on Earth, and in just few decades further down on our current path of technological progress, those who are willing to go through with it will also have the means to do so. Considering how technological progress is always a step ahead from related safety & security concerns, it seems that there are some bad times ahead.