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Message: <blockquote data-quote="garrowolf" data-source="post: 6332804" data-attributes="member: 31900">Actually 3d printing is already more advanced then that. GE is 3d printing thruster bells that are a lot less expensive than the old way to do it. People are making 3d printers that are faster and faster. They are "printing" buildings and are planning on a robot that will land on Mars or the Moon, convert the local dirt into a kind of concrete and print the colony buildings. They have printed food and even organ tissue. It is going to completely change the world. It will take all the incentive to ship manufacturing jobs overseas as the shipping costs will end up being the most expensive part of the process. They are printing large car parts to build on demand instead of over producing like they do now. They are starting to have goods created on demand instead of creating huge runs. In the future they are forecasting that it will cause a great deal of local independence. A lot of manufacturing jobs will come back to the US. People will be able to print everything we normally buy out of dollar stores fairly soon. They are making these printers faster and faster. They are building printers that are able to create objects with multiple materials. We will probably end up with a small 3d plastic printer in every home similar to how most people have a paper printer. Shops would have more specialized printers creating most objects that we use or parts that can be put together. Then you would have huge printers creating huge objects like railroad car parts. I've worked security at a railroad manufacturing plant and changing the configuration for different parts is a major difficulty. Most businesses would have a few of them. Oh and most of the 3d printing world is open source. You can even print parts to build another 3d printer!The materials will be interesting. They are working on a crop that can be used in the printers to print plastic parts so that 3rd world countries can raise a crop, create the paste, put it in the printer, and create all the things that they need. It will greatly change the lives of 3rd world nations. They are even working on new types of "plastics" that can be broken back down using an enzyme to print something else. This will be a huge benefit in space. They are working on a 3d printer for zero g so that they don't have to carry all the back up parts that they normally have. If they can break it back down it would be even better (plus it would be a source of mean pranks!).  They can print with several powdered metals that were originally created for jewelry creation. these can be used in the home as well. They have created inks that are conductive to be able to write out a circuit board. So we will be printing those in a few years. People will be able to get computer parts printed at a local shop. Certain designs will be patented but they will be the focus of torrent sites. Patent laws may stop a shop from creating something but a person could make something in their own shop. As you can see 3d printing is a huge interest of mine. A goal in the future for me is to own a 3d printer shop!After 3d printing we will move into nanite assemblers.</blockquote>

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