Posted on 12/28/2014 4:04:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Ok, so it prints, but can it learn to do cursive?
I’ll know 3-D printing has become an important part of everyday life when the government starts talking about regulating all aspects of it. I don’t think we are very far from that point now. Maybe within the next six years, the type of ‘ink’ used will be strictly regulated, especially the kind used to produce weapons. Not now, but soon, after the prices fall for these handy ‘thing makers’.
The End of Chinese Manufacturing and Rebirth of U.S. Industry
http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/07/23/the-end-of-chinese-manufacturing-and-rebirth-of-u-s-industry/
Even if the Chinese automate their factories with AI-powered robots and manufacture 3D printers, it will no longer make sense to ship raw materials all the way to China to have them assembled into finished products and shipped back to the U.S. Manufacturing will once again become a local industry with products being manufactured near raw materials or markets.
So China has many reasons to worry, and manufacturing will undoubtedly return to the U.S.—if not in this decade then early in the next. But the same jobs that left the U.S. won’t come back: they won’t exist. What will the new jobs be? We can only guess. Autodesk CEO Carl Bass says that just as we have created new, higher-paying jobs in every other industrial transition, we will create a new set of industries and professions in this one. Look at the new types of jobs and multi-billion dollar businesses that the Internet and mobile industries created—these came out of nowhere and changed our lives, Bass says.
Already too late:
New Process Recycles Milk Jugs Into 3D Printer Filament (10 cents per KG, vs. $50 now)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3130558/posts
Solid Concepts 3D Prints Another Metal Gun, ‘Reason’, a 10mm Auto 1911
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3219719/posts
Actually it can do cursive, (well script font). My kids got me a 3d printer for Christmas this year! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoZ2BgPVtA0
3D-Printed “Magic Arms”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT3772yhr0o
MakerBot and Robohand | 3D Printing Mechanical Hands
Ping to #5.
3-D Printing Will Change the World
https://hbr.org/2013/03/3-d-printing-will-change-the-world
It seems that the United States and other Western countries, almost in spite of themselves, will pull off the old judo technique of exploiting a competitor’s lack of balance and making its own massive weight instrumental in its fall.
China won’t be a loser in the new era; like every nation, it will have a domestic market to serve on a local basis, and its domestic market is huge. And not all products lend themselves to 3-D printing. But China will have to give up on being the mass-manufacturing powerhouse of the world. The strategy that has given it such political heft won’t serve it in the future.
The great transfer of wealth and jobs to the East over the past two decades may have seemed a decisive tipping point. But this new technology will change again how the world leans.
Can anybody out there print me up a high volume high velocity intake for a GM 3800 series ii? Thanks in advance.
“The End of Chinese Manufacturing and Rebirth of U.S. Industry”
I’ve been thinking for a while now that manufacturing might go back to a pre Industrial revolution cottage industry type thing. Don’t know if this would be good or bad. The microprocessor got me thinking along this line.
China has nothing to worry about. Their 'Growth' industries will be
1. clean up the environmental disaster they created
2. providing medical care to the millions injured by polution
I’m looking at one sometime this year.
There are a few things slightly higher priority. I look at reviews and subscribe to some mailing lists to try to keep track of developments.
Those things just consume resources ...
Sure it will. As long as the premiums imposed by unions, frivolous lawsuits, regulations, and taxes continue to add up to more than the transportation costs nothing is going to change.
You are right. I was thinking from the perspective of Western Civilization again. I've stopped thinking about Islam with that lens for a long time. China is little better than ISIS when to comes to respecting life.
This is clearly going to revolutionize the world.
Even with all that, in one article I was reading about “reshoring” manufacturing, right now (without 3D printing) one manufacturer calculated they would only have a 10% increase in costs in America, as compared to overseas. It’s not that kind of equation as you think it is, anymore.
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