By Peter Diamandis, which (if you’re not familiar with his stuff) means “like Cory Doctorow on really good uppers”: full-tilt, jargon-laced, and relentlessly utopian.
But setting that aside, this is a fascinating shift that the manufacturing industry is just starting to go through, which looks like taking it in the same direction as the early personal computer software industry.
If I had kids, I would be making sure they understood the basics of 3D modeling and industrial design.
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3 Major Shifts Are About to Transform Manufacturing as We Know It https://suhub.co/2I0UxHg
…may I ask if it be legal reading aloud at National Monuments (usa?
sorry way off topic
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I’ve seen the potential dystopian flip side of this too: 3D printing destroys the manufacturing and logistics industry, leading to mass blue-collar unemployment and thus entire communities that can’t afford to get into the “maker” economy.
Aaaaaand BOOM! Universal Basic Income!