EverydayCommentary: Kansept Dako Review

In one of the early episodes of Star Trek the Next Generation (S1:E17, When the Bough Breaks), the crew transports down to a planet that appears to be a paradise. One of the displays of their fabulous technology is a sculpting tool that reads your mind and vaporizes any material in the target that is not what is in your brain. I have been thinking about this silly throwaway device since I saw that episode when it first aired in February of 1988.

A few things pop into my mind. First, is what it produces art? Setting aside the infamously stupid “Is this art?” debate, supposing it sculpted something like David, would it be art? If the device did the manual labor, does the result still count as art? If the person just had an idea and the thing made the idea, is the person the artist? If so, where is the artistic creation occurring—in the the generation of the mental image or in the device? There are thousands of questions this prop and scene gave rise to in my 11 year old brain that now, 37 years later I am still pondering.

We have kind of reached something like that point in the knife industry. Overseas manufacturing is so good now that a CAD render can be produced with perfect fidelity and flawless fit and finish. It’s not quite the stick thingy that was the prop, but it is a step closer. So what happens when knife makers are freed of the making part of knife making and their blades are technically perfect? The Kansept Dako instantiates this question perfectly.

Interesting take.  I know the episode of TNG, but OI wouldn’t have thought to bring it up in a knife review.

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