JMS owned the movie rights (But not the TV rights.) He announced in 2014 that if Warner Bros. didn’t step forward with a project in 2015, he’d do the movie in 2016 with funding already in place.
I haven’t seen anything more. But JMS’s series Sense8 is a success, with a second season being filmed. And he’s writing a TV series adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Red Mars” for Spike TV. So his plate seems pretty full.
the precursor to the replicator, the 3-D printer. Give them another 50 years and who knows where this path will lead them.
Don’t get your hopes up too high.
There’s some interesting things coming down the pipeline where they mix plastics with different properties - so a single object can have flexible and non-flexible bits for example. And you’ll have the ability to add existing wiring and metal components throughout the plastic.
But printing anything with a microchip from scratch won’t be happening. Even in 50 years, printing a computer mouse or keyboard will mean printing the plastic bits on one machine, metal bits on another (and probably not in the average home) in separate runs for copper and aluminum, the circuit board on another… And purchasing the keyboard processor already made. And hand-assembling the individual keys, then the whole keyboard.
I figure we’ll be at the electric tea kettle stage - metal and plastic, with no microelectronics. But even the heating element (copper coil in an aluminum casing) probably won’t be possible in the average home.
