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How 3D Printing Will Revolutionize Manufacturing
The transformative technology of the 2015-2025 period could be 3D printing. This has the potential to remake the economics of manufacturing from a large-scale industry back to an artisan model of small design shops with access to 3D printers. In other words, making stuff, real stuff, could move from being a capital intensive industry into something that looks more like art and software. This should favor the American skill set of creativity.
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John Tedder on July 11th, 2011 7:08 pm
Sounds like a replicator on Star Trek. Amazing.
John Ahladis on July 21st, 2011 11:33 am
As an employee of a 3D printing company, (http://www.2bot.com), I can see 3D printing becoming very accessible within the next 5-10 years. There are already many 3D printers that are under $25,000 meaning that businesses and even consumers can afford to print their own physical 3D models at work or home. There are already sites like Google SketchUp that have galleries of 3D models that can downloaded for free, meaning people won’t even have to become experts in programs like AutoCAD, Rhino, etc…
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