How about 3d printed ink cartridges?
Or 3d printed Otter Box cases?
Or anything else that is overpriced and taxed?
The basic cartridge would not be a problem ... any metal work or electronics complicates things. Then, of course, there's the ink.
Or 3d printed Otter Box cases?
Should be feasible.
Or anything else that is overpriced and taxed?
The neat thing about 3D CAD software is that it lets anyone be a designer. Some packages are relatively inexpensive.
We have a ways to go to get there. There are clear steps to molecular scale fabrication, but a lot of “engineering” has to be developed to go there.
I do not know how long it will take. 10 years? 20 years? 100 years? Some people predicted that it would already have happened.
We have made enormous progress, but we still have quite a ways to go.