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"The Decentralized Library of Alexandria is an open-source standard in active development to allow users to publish and distribute original content themselves, from music to videos to feature films, 3d printable inventions, recipes, books and just about anything else. It is a unified, ever-growing library of art, history and culture which users interact with through a variety of front end apps. A native browser is in continuing development, but the Alexandria standard can also be used by other open source developers and even current industry incumbents like YouTube, Soundcloud, iTunes and Netflix to offer a far superior value proposition to content providers and a better experience for users than currently available."

"World Wind is a free, open source API for a virtual globe. World Wind allows developers to quickly and easily create interactive visualizations of 3D globe, map and geographical information. Organizations across the world use World Wind to monitor weather patterns, visualize cities and terrain, track the movement of planes, vehicles and ships, analyze geospatial data, and educate people about the Earth."

Labor aus dem Drucker

The prospect of creating hybrid animals with human parts and killing them to harvest organs has already raised a slew of ethical questions. So have other sci-fi-esque scenarios, like using "brainless" host bodies as organ farms and building organs from scratch using 3D bioprinters. As we envision an era of regenerative medicine decades from now, how far is society willing to go to solve the organ shortage crisis?