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Old 10-08-2014, 04:36 PM  
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Yes, 3D printing is amazing. Yes, it's the future. Yes, it marks a new beginning in the tech industrial revolution.

It also wipes out more jobs that you can imagine.

This technology will be more damaging than buying our products from China.

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If human beings don't advance and prosper, who will buy all the crap spewing out of these 3D printers? Only the rich.
I think quite the opposite, 3D printers will allow the smaller companies to flourish over the larger ones allowing them to experiment with products, or develop products that larger corporations may in the past thought to be unprofitable.

A real-life 'Iron Man': 3-year-old boy fitted with 3D-printed prosthetic hand

The economic engine of the United States is with small businesses, this 3D printed prosthetic hand is just one example of where 3D printing is going to improve how we live, and ideally spring up businesses that can compete with China and the rest of the world.

Worse case, Tuesday is Soylent Green day...
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