06-22-2016, 09:31 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-22-2016, 09:33 AM by goldenboy.
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3d printing is a fantastic tool- not really a new industry. It has been around for a while but it is making the news now because it has become cheap and easy enough for people to make or buy and operate their own 3d printers (entered the consumer space).
I say its a fantastic tool because it is. Its future is in enabling people to prototype and experiment more with physical objects. Before it was so cheap, it was difficult for the average person to engineer new inventions/prototypes or everyday items. People were pretty much limited to creating software products. Now, all of the advantages of software development (cheap, easy, ect.) are coming to the physical world.
So, like the explosion of software creation we saw recently enabled by cheap computers, cheap manufacturing (3d printers) will enable an explosion of engineered physical products (including hardware/software integration, network connectivity, ect.)
Thats the future.
I say its a fantastic tool because it is. Its future is in enabling people to prototype and experiment more with physical objects. Before it was so cheap, it was difficult for the average person to engineer new inventions/prototypes or everyday items. People were pretty much limited to creating software products. Now, all of the advantages of software development (cheap, easy, ect.) are coming to the physical world.
So, like the explosion of software creation we saw recently enabled by cheap computers, cheap manufacturing (3d printers) will enable an explosion of engineered physical products (including hardware/software integration, network connectivity, ect.)
Thats the future.
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