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Why 3-D Printing Will Go the Way of Virtual Reality
Update: Tim Maly has published an excellent counterpoint to this post over at the Tech Review Guest blog. There is a species of magical thinking practiced by geeks whose experience is computers and electronics—realms of infinite possibility that are purposely constrained from the messiness of the physical world—that is typical of Singularitarianism, mid-90s missives about the promise of virtual reality, and now, 3-D printing.
Kurzweil Warns Retailers at Shop.org to Plan for Major Paradigm Shifts
Attendees of this year's Shop.org Summit were treated to a talk by inventor, author and futurist Ray Kurzweil, who said the exponential growth in IT/computing power means the world will be very different in 3 years.
Legal battles loom as home 3D printing grows | Sci-Tech | Deutsche Welle | 26.01
Legal battles could soon emerge as digital sharing moves beyond copying media to taking files and transforming them into physical objects. The controversial website The Pirate Bay announced this week that it would begin hosting digital files for visitors to download and print out on their 3D printers.There is a lot of discussion online regarding the possible (inevitable?)
3D Printing and the end of ownership - my plastic future
FILTON, just outside Bristol, is where Britain's fleet of Concorde supersonic airliners was built. In a building near a wind tunnel on the same sprawling site, something even more remarkable is being created. Little by little a machine is “printing” a complex titanium landing-gear bracket, about the size of a shoe, which normally would have to be laboriously hewn from a solid block of metal.
3D printing: The printed world
