3-D Printing: This Centuries Most Disruptive Innovation?

3-D Printing: This Centuries Most Disruptive Innovation

3-D Printing video link

This video points out major ways that 3-D printing is going to change our world.  3-D printing will change many common hings like: what is luxurious, how we by, how we view ourselves, and even how we have fun.  These printers will not only change common things but can also impact necessary hings like: food, medical care, laws, architecture, economy, and even our environment.

The first disruptive advantage 3-D printers have is the ability to pint themselves.  Once you have a 3-D printer you can literally print all of the parts for another one and assemble it.  This is a very unique characteristic that no other non-living thing has.  That sounds disruptive to me.

These printers can print very elaborate objects that would otherwise be hand-made and decrease the time to produce exponentially.  This will make luxurious objects less expensive and eventually change what we view as luxurious as a whole.  This same concept will apply to fashion.  These expensive, elaborate clothes will be produced easily with 3-D printing.  It will change how we wear clothes and how they are produced.

3-D printers can also change more important, essential parts of our lives like I mentioned in the first paragraph.  These printers can make ice sculptures, and make elaborate cakes way faster (and better) than humans.  That will completely change the food industry as we know it.  The most beneficial characteristic in my opinion is the ability to print your skin cells onto another part of your body.  This will advance the medical industry tremendously and make skin graphs more available and cheaper for the public.

The most disruptive change will come to our laws.  Think about anyone with one of these printers being able to print a working gun.  That makes the availability of weapons to the public increase as well, which could impact some interesting parts of our justice system.  Do you think that 3-D printing is the mos disruptive technology of this century?