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earthsworld t1_irsmbo0 wrote

Reply to comment by Sashinii in When will average office jobs start disappearing? by pradej

lol, do you seriously believe that a multi-trillion dollar tech won't be patented? And you do realize that self-replicating nanobots could wipe out the planet in a matter of minutes? So your brilliant idea is that everyone should have one?

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phriot t1_irsq3li wrote

Patents typically have expiration dates. Even then, parents only stop you from commercializing something, not making it. If such a nanofactory were to exist, DRM would go further in preventing people from making their own than a patent would. Like, it could in theory make anything, but it's locked down to not make weapons or copies of itself.

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earthsworld t1_irsri29 wrote

and with ML/AI able to crack just about anything, how long do you imagine it would stay "locked down" for?

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phriot t1_irss5v2 wrote

I figure that by the time any of this is real, we'd have quantum-resistant cryptography.

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