OPINION: Printers are changing our lives

By Kate Walker
December 17 2014 - 2:00am

I sat glued to an Al Jazeera news story. It was fascinating. The European Space Agency is collaborating  with architects to work out if it is feasible to create a building suitable for human habitation on the moon. In the seventies in the excitement of the first man on the moon,  we thought that it wouldn't be long before humans would build their homes, create villages, towns, even cities on the moon. Cost benefit analysis soon left the idea to science fiction. Thirty or so years later the idea has resurfaced.

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