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A company called Apis Cor has 3D printed a (tiny) house in 24 hours for $10,000, which comes out to about $275/m2.
Reconstructing Buckingham Palace at 77,000 m2 this way would cost only about $21 million. According to a 2010 estimate in The Guardian: "you could build a new energy-efficient replica of the palace for a knock-down £320m", which translates to $552 million.
So: 3D printing the palace would save over a HALF BILLION DOLLARS! Muahahaha (pinkies up!).
Video of the building process.
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Everything you know is wrong!
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday April 25 2017, @05:57AM
The problem is usually access to willing funding capital. And investors have money otherwise they would not be able to invest. And with plenty of money they can live a good life even in crowded cities. So these circumstances won't affect them enough. But this setup also leaves the boonies without investment and customers of said investment. Thus the problem. On the other hand we are probably converging on a transition point where the conditions are ripe to just go fuck-this-shit-and-live-well.
People usually don't need work. They need money and which provides housing and food primarily. If those can be had through other means people can defect from the squirrel wheel.
I like your boonies tech hub idea. In fact it may not need to be exactly in the boonies, just a bit on the countryside where pricing is sane. Housing should be doable financially. Food is cheap. Communication can usually be accomplished somehow. It's tech people after all. What is needed is good ideas the can be traded for money so living can be supported.