There are four types of construction. The two methods that exist now are destructive machining and molding with extreme temperatures. Coming to a future near you it will be possible to use nanites to assemble from the atom up. In the future it may be possible to convert energy directly into matter in the form of our choosing like in Gene Roddenberry’s writings. The original Star Trek series avoided stories lines that dealt with the implications of this theoretical technology. Star Trek t...

Technologies such as cloning, Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology and robotics will present ongoing challenges as to how to integrate them into our lives. These technologies will soon be realized no matter what may be done to prevent them. For the simple reasons that there is a need, and money to be made from them. Some, like human cloning will be realized illegally because people will pay serious money for spare parts their bodies wont reject. The military and corporations will fuel...