“You’re not going to have one in your house,” she added. “These are not desktop printers. They’re huge, they’re expensive and you need to know how to use them.”
And what were computers originally like?
Your analogy if false. It’s more like being able to have your own R/C model helicopter, but the average person will still never own a real helicopter. Selective Laser sintering systems are a quarter-million bucks and aren’t likely to get cheaper, even after the core patents expire next year. They’ve been around since the mid-80s, so like most of what is coming out about 3D Printing, it’s more hype than anything. Cheap SLS machines won’t be coming to your hobby room anytime soon...Expert opinions back me up on this:
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Exactly right. The possibilities of this technology from a self-defence perspective are staggering.
“And what were computers originally like?”
Excellent point. Let me make another. What was said about color printers in 1985 was that they would require knowledge of publishing and that few would avail themselves of the capabilities those printers had. Well, today the average cubicle-poodle can whip out a document every bit as amazing and professional as those 1985 publisher professionals created. I have all kinds of manuals from that period and most are laughable as to be called ‘professional’ compared to many document people create every day now.