@GK I have been watching this 3D printing technology closely and the growth is exponential as is the printing resolution. The print resolution and the materials being utilized are more than doubling every 6 months. Also the number of companies involved in this tech is growing astronomically and almost none are going though the normal channels for raising venture capital and almost none are patenting because their technology would be obsolete within the first quarter.
As well there is much debate concerning the corporate implications, why buy a product with all the middlemen and markups when one person can scan a product in 3D and the whole world can replicate as many as they want whenever they want it. I love this technology because it obliterates the standard paradigm and most people literally have no idea what is coming in the near future. Now imagine any person being able to build anything on the nano-scale with almost any material, lol, 99% of the population cannot even begin to comprehend the implications.
To put this in perspective the rate of change of technology and knowledge is moving so fast that any ordinary person our age should most likely be classified as a retard because the younger generation are not just moving forward they are leap frogging through technology faster than anyone can understand it. That is unless an expert is actually on the cutting edge playing an integral part in the technology then they are not actually an expert in anything.
AC
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