Friday, 22 September 2017

3D Printer Filament May Redefine Humanities Future

By Dorothy Miller


Even Nostradamus never envisioned the direction that technology is taking the world right now. It is a small box, and for most of us it remains basically a toy, but it is unlike any toy anyone has ever wished for because it can create anything anyone can imagine. A machine, with some 3D printer filament added, has become a tool so powerful that it WILL change everything we ever imagined about the future.

The initial introduction of this technology did not seem to raise very many glasses at first. In fact, not many average people really had any notion of exactly where the tech was most easily applied to their lives. It is doubtful that anyone, including technical gurus, really understood how this technology would create the potential to completely rewrite manufacturing as it is done today.

Initially hobbyists bought these up and created ornaments for Christmas trees and other general artsy projects. The ornaments suddenly could have solar lights that attached or were part of the object. Then these very artistic yet very average people realized a potential for moving parts, small machines, ornaments that jingle when they strike each other, kept moving by the basic laws of perpetual motion.

There are many children who, for whatever reasons, are born with hands, arms, feet, limbs missing. When a parent of such a child saw these tiny machines hanging from artificial trees, ornamenting the Holidays of strangers, an idea suddenly emerged into concept. A parent made a child an artificial hand that was radically Transformers in appearance, and could be redesigned over and over as they grew.

As with any new toys that yuppies take a shine to, the variations on materials will expand as long as their credit limits last. One of the next items the world came to behold, printed right in some gamer geeks living room, were musical instruments. Many of them are basic electric and bass guitars, but there are some unique one-of-a-kind gems out there which even their creator was hard-pressed to find a name for.

With music and robotics covered, naturally the fashion industry would be the next market attempting to push this new toy to the limits of potential. Creative minds who love clothes do not always love to sew. Truly creative minds abhor limitations, and with these printers, there is neither sewing nor limits to what a fashion designer can manifest.

The next leap of design was so unexpected, and so profound, that the world still barely speaks of it above a whisper. The use of this technology for creating, or printing fresh new organs with stem cells means we can all be our own surgeons one day. This means that life can be extended through the generation of organs, which we have anticipated, but none of us ever thought it would be possible to do this on our own.

The truth of the matter is that all manufacturing, of all products we use in our daily lives, may one day be designed by us and printed in our own homes. This means warehouse districts are over, along with all the jobs that they represent. This technology will force us to rethink everything we know about how and why people work, and we must recreate ourselves as fully as we might recreate our aging bodies someday sooner than we knew.




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