*This is definitely one of Geoff's odder musings lately. What is with this? Robot-vision, anti-robot vision... Maybe climate-change is directly influencing the insides of people's heads.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/object-cancers.html
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"The corporate response to the robot-readable world, mentioned earlier, is thus a kind of robot-blocking world.
"In any case, (((whenever Geoff uses this phrase, it's usually the sign of the visionary afterburner kicking in))) what seems more provocative here, on the level of design, would be to appropriate this protective stance and reuse it in the design of future objects, but emphasizing the other end: to allow for the scanning of any object designed or manufactured, but to to insert, in the form of watermarks, small glitches that would only become visible upon reprinting.
"We could call these object cancers: bulbous, oddly textured, and other dramatically misshapen errors that only appear in 3D-reprinted objects. Chairs with tumors, mutant silverware, misbegotten watches—as if the offspring of industrial reproducibility is a molten world of Dalí-like surrealism..."
