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We produce in the kitchen or in the bathroom. Most people have some fabrication bots at home. The popular 3D printer/mill combines a 3D printer with a computer-controlled milling machine. 3D printers produce three-dimensional objects by printing multiple layers of bioplastics, metal, or ceramic on top of each other, until the desired object is complete. Within several hours, typical home 3D printers can print objects up to 50 by 40 by 30 centimeters large. That’s big enough to print most durable households items, whether crockery, cutlery, games and toys, or tools. Electrical and electronic appliances are made in the same way, except for the actual electric or lighting elements. It’s also common to print replacement parts if something breaks down or doesn’t fit.

"In the late 1960’s, the critical, political theologian Jürgen Moltmann, Professor of Theology at Tübingen University in Germany, was a Visiting Professor of Systematic Theology at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina, USA. While here, Moltmann [1969, 1967], who was greatly influenced in the development of his theology of hope and of Christian eschatology by Ernst Bloch’s philosophy of hope, presented the theological doctrine of Christian eschatology in terms that expressed the influence of Bloch’s Marxist thinking on utopia, e.g., “The Prophecy of the New,” “Religion, Revolution, and the Future,” “Christians and Marxists Struggle for Freedom,” “God in Revolution,” “The Future as New Paradigm of Transcendence,” etc. In the language of hope, Moltmann spoke about and wrote on the notion of utopia, its history, and its Judeo/Christian religious roots.