Re:3D Printing Revolution: The Complex Reality
by kragen on Friday February 15, 2013 @12:42AM
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In June I wrote a bit about this:
"When automated fabrication—the scenario where you get your next bicycle by
downloading bicycle blueprints over the network and sending them to a machine
that then produces a bicycle for you without human intervention—happens, it
will not be by means of 3-D printers, which work by depositing layers of a
small number of materials. Instead, it will take the form of automated assembly
by robots of parts mostly made by other means, such as laser cutting, torch
cutting, CNC machining, and planar printing processes."
"When automated fabrication—the scenario where you get your next bicycle by downloading bicycle blueprints over the network and sending them to a machine that then produces a bicycle for you without human intervention—happens, it will not be by means of 3-D printers, which work by depositing layers of a small number of materials. Instead, it will take the form of automated assembly by robots of parts mostly made by other means, such as laser cutting, torch cutting, CNC machining, and planar printing processes."
I posted that on http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2012-June/00.... What do you think? Is that correct?