graphene and 3D printing

[bandwraith at aol.com]

I was thinking about this before I googled it and came up with this
article:

http://www.3dprinter.net/graphene-3d-printing

Probably hogwash (for now) but it kept me thinking. 3D printing
certainly is on the cusp of tomorrow and one can imagine the curves of
graphene and 3D printing intersecting at some point in the future. From
my perspective, which tends more naturally towards the metaphysical,
graphene is interesting for several reasons- its thinness and its
purity. It's one molecule thick! Its nearly two dimensional, but it's
not. It opens up a whole new potential space for the control of the
infinitesimal. This potential for expanding our control into the realm
of the very small is abetted by its purity. It's a nazi blockhead's
dream- purity on the finest scale, pure carbon. Dreams of purity and
control intersected in the wet dreams of the nazi's, although like
Jamf, they would probably have preferred sheets of the more masculine
bonding silicene, also one molecule thick, but easily tempted by
hydrogen to give up its purity.

Kekule's hydrogenated "snake" or ouroboros is also crude by comparison
to graphene's sleek purity- it offers a whole 'nother dimension for
belly jewelry.

The potential metaphorical applications of graphene need further
exploration and no doubt its physical properties will outstrip my
feeble attempts to metaphoricize it.

With respect to 3D printing, the potential intersection reminds of the
relationship between the Riemann Sum and the differential- ultra slim
slivers summed to a whole- another gleam in the eye of the control
freak.