3-D printing is set to explode onto the marketplace in the next few years. Although it is more than thirty years in the making, additive manufacturing is being ushered into the consumer market-space. New devices like Makerbot and another by the Z corporation have brought the cost of making objects from computer aided design files to the masses.
This new technology is set to recreate the way we live and work in our current economy. It has the potential to upend the whole chain of distribution and shipping as we currently know it. The jobs created by these old world ways will be lost and downsized as this technology takes hold in the consumer culture. With the ability to scan and recreate any object it is nearly revolutionary in its scope and depth, with few limitations. While these goods are made of generally only one material and resin, the size of objects and their composites are being expanded upon as we speak.
The future for these machines is to replicate human tissue and organs for replacement among individuals that have demonstrated the 'urgent need', that is, provided the funds to print transplant and accept the new organ or tissue.
The main thing to understand here is that this will be the only viable option for creating civilization on another planetary surface. The logistics of bringing every conceivable need are nearly impossible to accomplish while travelling in outer-space because of distance and fuel constraints. The reason the examples are always about space travel and the needs of space travelers is because the handlers are directing human development toward space, the moon, and mars. This has been occurring in the background for many years as we have reverse engineered fallen craft of alien origin and begun the process of moving life as we know it, to the red planet.
An important transition has happened for those wanting to continue life down a technological path, this path is heightened by 3-D Printing.
