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Originally Posted by pdurrant

And in fact, very early replicators already exist. 3D printers. Extrapolate 3D printers a few decades down the line, and you get something very close to a replicator.

Plenty of coverage of 3D printing on boingboing:

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner...ngboing.net%2F