3D Printer Filament Is Reinventing Everything

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.

As the potential for micro machines became very clear, the leap that erupted from this was something no one could have guessed. As we all know, there is always a percentage of children born with a limb missing. Most often this limb is the hand, and the parents of these children rose out of obscurity when they created moving replacement hands, arms, and feet for their children; printing a series to grow as their child would grow.

With the expansion of the materials available for these printers, so do the ideas and objects that human beings create. Some first prototypes do not live up to their originals, such as the first musical instruments created. However, electric instruments created in this way have a most excellent sound, and some of them are unlike anything anyone has ever dreamed could be.

Not even fashion will be safe from the flood of brilliant creation being independently generated by average people. With so few limits to what can be done, even the clothing itself has expanded outside of the second dimension. The mind of genius with the hands of technology can now exist in every single home, everywhere on the planet, limited only by the availability of the filaments they use.

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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