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Originally Posted by NewOldPlayer
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.
It just strengthens the evolution of removing humans from manual manufacturing labor. Nice if you are a CEO of Toys R Us, but what about the other 99% of the working class?
It's bad enough that our economy is still struggling, and now with 3D printing coming, all industries will be jumping at it to save money ie: get rid of those pesky costly humans that used to do manual labor for us.
Technology should aid mankind to advance. This advancement will further destroy our fragile economy and destroy more jobs in the long run.
I'm not against progress. I think it's an amazing invention. But I wish the egg heads and CEO's would concentrate on the advancement of human beings, and not just on ways to increase their profit margins.
If human beings don't advance and prosper, who will buy all the crap spewing out of these 3D printers? Only the rich.
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You're going to hear /read all kinds of opinions on this and to be honest no one knows how any of this will finish. However nations rise and fall; species eventually go extinct and in the end everything eventually comes to an end. So the United States will eventually collapse and one day humanity will go the way of the dinosaur.
But in the mean time if you're wrestling with this concept of progress you should start by asking yourself
1) What is progress?
Is it putting an end to illiteracy, world hunger, racism, war, etc? OR is it a stupid Iphone, 3D printing or a driverless car?
2) Who's in charge of deciding what is or isn't progress and why them?
No one ever asked you what you think and in fact it's the opposite they tell you what to think.
3) Where is all this "progress" going?
After all what's the end goal to this? Is it to create a happier, more stable and more peaceful world or is it just for financial profit?