Spam Spam Spam Spam

Jamais Cascio points us to a short story by Sven Johnson about 3D spam, circa 2019, posted at Futurismic: 

I can remember the first “fab spam” outbreak like it was yesterday.

Ever walk through a field and come out on the other end with burrs clinging to your clothes? Well, imagine something like those little burrs spilling out of your home fabber. Embedding themselves in the shag carpet. Attaching to an angry cat. Perforating your foot.

If you bothered to look closely, you might even have seen the maker’s mark … right beneath the words “Firewall Protection Software” or “Network Security Services”.

Read it -- it's short and fun.

We've covered the topic of 3D spam several times here on this blog. Although as a problem it's still at least several years away, when it comes, it could be a doozy.

Mike Treder

Comments

[jim moore]

3D spam, who calls it 3D spam anymore? The official term is Spawn. Especially after the outbreak of those hellish little flying robots in April 2018.

And if you would have gone with the cradle to cradle fab system, you would not be having that much of a problem. All you would have to have done is gather up the spawn and put them in the disassembler and you would have plenty of raw material to make your repairs. But nooooo, you had to go with a cheap fabber that produces soon to be junk that is every ware these days.

But the one thing that never seems to change is that nobody listens to us dirty fracking hippies.