Posted on 04/01/2015 3:11:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
+1 Big time.
Never did understand it. Sounds like a scam.
3D printing will dramatically change a few things. It will change many things somewhat. It will not come close to changing the way we live for most people. At least not for several decades.
That’s an amazing prediction, considering how pervasive the Internet is with everything we do and all business!
BUT ... I think that’s true!
It won’t democratize industry at all. It will specialize it. It will always be more efficient to use mass production. But I suspect future industry will be far more flexible and effective at producing new technologies.
The cost of manufacturing will be shifted to the consumer, just like the costs of printing, tech & customer support have been.
Yeah, way cool.
3D printing shall make the reproduction of very intricate designs so easy and cheap, that there may soon be little regard for design patents or original sculpture. Even such biologically unique things as body parts could be satisfactorily reproduced, fundamentally transforming how medicine is practiced in regards to prosthetics and internal medicine.
And that is just a couple of the possibilities. Nobody could predict how the internet would change how people interact or how information is distributed.
All the American mfgrs have.
The name is now Additive Manufacturing. Instead of taking away material, it is added as needed where needed. And joined to make a whole.
Lots of skeptics on this thread.
Don't be. It really will change everything.
The process is underway. The train done already left the station....
This is totally cool. It will mark sea-change in our whole way of life. Maybe not for baby-boomers like me, but for anyone 40 and under, it will be as revolutionizing as the internet, and the Industrial Revolution before that.
As is said in the business...the complexity comes for free with Additive Manufacturing.
I don’t need that many candle holders, Buddha statues, or toothpick dispensers that would generate a revolution in home manufacturing.
Now when these things can machine 304l or titanium, let me know!!
It will...right after Segway and Google Glass.
I don’t know about industrial tools but examples of small household goods that have used it tend to be bulky and often downright ugly (probably the initial engineered version...)
No more than desk printers changed the print industry.
Those things don’t print something from or for nothing, nor will they be more durable than the crap paper printers we have today.
DIYers will be in heaven though.
Solid Concepts 3D Prints Another Metal Gun, ‘Reason’, a 10mm Auto 1911
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3219719/posts
Engineer Creates a Unique 3D Metal Printer for Just $2 — Prints in Gold, Platinum, Iron & More
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3262807/posts
3HTi Signs Deal with MarkForged to Sell the Mark One 3D Printer (Carbon fiber, Kevlar, fiberglass)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3260141/posts
ICL Researchers Figure out How to 3D Print Pure Graphene
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3259031/posts
Fantasy rules.
Can 3-D printing spit out a duplicate of Kate Upton?
Well compare the Model T to the modern luxury cars of today ... and that should give you an idea of the future ... :-) ...
In the future ... yes ... :-) ...
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