Nanoassemblers, and the post-scarcity world that they would enable, have been used in SF by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, among others. Whatever we can imagine such a world being like, we’re sure to fall short of the reality (if it ever becomes possible).
My novella Gu takes a slightly different tack – programmable matter – but more or less systematically imagines some of the impacts, in the format of a documentary. Again, I’m sure I missed a lot, just because I’m embedded in a society where things are made in a certain shape and stay that shape.
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How a Machine That Can Make Anything Would Change Everything http://suhub.co/2D01G4x
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