

Seems that way. Next up is licensing fees for printing certain models. Basically they’d like to get as far as when Picard says “Tea, Earl Grey, hot” the replicator says “Brought to you by Lipton. Taste good, feel good. You have 49 remaining replicator credits.”
Yeah, that’s the ruthless extrapolation. It’s like plotting the air speed of planes from Wright brothers to Concorde, continue drawing the line going upward and conclude that by 2026 you’ll go from Paris to New York in five minutes. It never works like that.