So many people talking about how 3d printers is something impractical for everybody.
The other day I attended a talk about the history of personal computers, and certainly it rhymes.
At the time everybody was saying, a personal computer? who wants this? People do not need a database for cooking, or a spreadsheet, it is a very expensive typing machine and it is very hard to use(command line). It was true.
What happened is that personal (and then mobile) computers evolved from a entrepise-centric to user-centric to grandma-could-use-facebook centric computers.
Most people in the old days could not imagine what the future would look like, because computer did exist, but their applications were different to what they predicted.
In the same way I believe 3d printing is amazing, not for what it is now, but what it will became.
I volunteered giving 3d classes for children and it is incredible what they could do after you teach them the basic concepts.
What is shocking for me is that it is "normal" for those 10 years old to design things that I could only do after studying engineering and gaining experience. Some of them absorb knowledge like an sponge.
I see in them the next Linux Towards, but instead of OSes, it becomes possible to design a car, or a plane over the Internet.Before 3d printers it is so hard that is practically impossible for normal people to do it.
The other day I attended a talk about the history of personal computers, and certainly it rhymes.
At the time everybody was saying, a personal computer? who wants this? People do not need a database for cooking, or a spreadsheet, it is a very expensive typing machine and it is very hard to use(command line). It was true.
What happened is that personal (and then mobile) computers evolved from a entrepise-centric to user-centric to grandma-could-use-facebook centric computers.
Most people in the old days could not imagine what the future would look like, because computer did exist, but their applications were different to what they predicted.
In the same way I believe 3d printing is amazing, not for what it is now, but what it will became.
I volunteered giving 3d classes for children and it is incredible what they could do after you teach them the basic concepts.
What is shocking for me is that it is "normal" for those 10 years old to design things that I could only do after studying engineering and gaining experience. Some of them absorb knowledge like an sponge.
I see in them the next Linux Towards, but instead of OSes, it becomes possible to design a car, or a plane over the Internet.Before 3d printers it is so hard that is practically impossible for normal people to do it.