De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds
Interestingly enough, this starts to bring up questions that have previously only been super active in science fiction circles, particularly, Star Trek: If you can perfectly recreate something down to the molecular level, what actually has value? (Assuming, someday, that synthetic versions are excessively cheap, in Star Trek&#x27;s case.)<p>If you can replicate cooked food perfectly, will people still claim that &quot;real&quot; food, grown, slaughtered, and cooked, is &quot;better&quot; or tastes &quot;more authentic&quot;, despite no technical difference?<p>Synthetic diamonds could, in fact, be in every way &quot;better&quot; (though hilariously, De Beers suggests a synthetic diamond &quot;may not be forever&quot;), but I won&#x27;t be surprised if authentic diamonds remain the &quot;real ones&quot; long term. (After all, as we know, diamonds actually have no real value, it&#x27;s all marketing.)