Chemical Spaghetti

3-D Printer Error aka Print Spaghetti

Just what you've always wanted - now you can convert chemical recipes into a digital code that can then be read by a chemical-computer-machine that spits out designer drugs. (Don't tell the Sacklers though.)

Producing molecules on-demand is kind of a big deal, because you can't just download recipes for chemicals. The recipe for drugs, for example like Prozac or Viagra, are kind of a secret. And although it may sound cruel, these drugs were not developed with the intent to be shared freely - they were developed for profit, and that usually means protecting their recipe. With the portent of a chemputer, the whole model of drug production would have to change.

Next - although this chemputer is a bit more complicated, we can think about it as a high-definition 3-D printer. High definition because you're controlling the printing material down to the molecular level. A related story on this tells us that the military is trying to grow its own drones. And Science is already growing its own organs, aka organoids.


Notes:
'Chemputer' promises app-controlled revolution for drug production
Nov 2018, phys.org
Lifting the lid on future military aircraft technologies
2016, BAE Systems
Lab-grown ‘mini brains’ produce electrical patterns that resemble those of premature babies
2018, Nature
Continuous Liquid Interface Production

Implosion Fabrication uses lasers to shrink manufactured objects down to nanoscale
2019, MIT

3-D printing 100 times faster with light
Jan 2019, phys.org

4-D-printed materials can be stiff as wood or soft as sponge
Mar 2019, phys.org


Other Strange Computers:
Magic Dust Supercomputer
Slime Computers
Weird Computers 
Network Address, 2013
Crystal Calculators
DNA