Alie Ward

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Okay, so we've asked Mary about writing Replaceable You, but now Fancy Nana asked, what materials would be used in 3D printing for prosthetics?

I assume you can't use PLA or resin, Fancy Nana adds.

Definitely not thinking of self-printing and replacing my arthritic joints.

And Turner Pierce wanted to know, printed organs and bones.

What's going on with that?

They said when I was applying to grad school a decade ago, they were using medical imaging to scan and 3D print bones for anthropology research.

And they said they thought it would be so cool to look at a printed version of my bones or organs.

But are they printing anyone's bones up to replace your own bones?

It's funny to think that somewhere right now there's some place going, you know what I mean?

And there's just a bone rising from the plastic or whatever.

But like frosting of different viscosities, kind of.

This is going to prop this up and feed this and that goes away, but this stays.

Right, right.

Exactly.

So Flossatron, a bit sci-fi, but do you think big brands will start producing body parts where you can get like the latest installation?

So it becomes like a fashion statement to have the latest update, like our iPhones, essentially.

Do people working in this sphere, are they looking that far in the future?

Or are they really just looking like, can we get this thing to market?