Banking and Amazon, too. Though that isn't to say that there isn't anything beyond the 3D printer.
I know of none but we have several at work. One of my cow-orkers was going to buy one and use it as a side business but he figured out that it made no business sense.
That is NOT the argument for most of us. The argument is whether they are 'game changing' or not. Jimp the Chimp argues that they are niche applications at best and will never be anything else. The counter-argument is when you start listing niches and potential niches, pretty soon you're changing the game in a lot of places.
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The original point was that the original "personal computers" were hideously expensive, very hard to use, and didn't do a whole lot. There absolutely were a lot of people who said "I'll never need one of those" back in the early 1980s. Yet they can be found (in desktop or laptop form) in the vast majority of houses in the US because the price dropped, they became much easier to use, and they could do a lot more (i.e. high speed Internet versus acoustic modems and BBSes),
Besides, smart phones prove the point AGAIN! When the original Apple iPhone came out, it didn't have it's "killer app" which was the App Store, so the orignal wasn't terribly functional. On top of that, cell data service at the time was slow, slow, slow, so even surfing the Internet was painful with these new "smart phones". But again, the majority of phones I see today are now "smart phones". They're cheaper, more functional (more apps), and the cell data networks are quite good these days.
New technologies keep getting cheaper and more accessible for individuals to use all the time! It's a pretty safe bet that the very same thing will happen with 3D printing.
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That's today. We're talking about the trending of the technology.
That sure as hell seems to be what you're arguing.
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This actually hurts your point. A dozen or more years ago, no one would have imagined using phones for what we use them for now.
And really a smart phone is just a tiny computer that happens to make phone calls. Again, it's the same argument made decades ago but folks not needing computers in the home.
I'd have to poll, but at least 2 I'm sure of, and I think the number is closer to 6. And if I include access to them at libraries, workerspaces, etc. then easily dozens.
Really? You need to get out more. I'd say the number of folks I know who own
3D printers is about the same as those who own the other items you mention.
That is basically your claim.
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New technologies will not make aluminum or plastic cheaper.
Printing speed is limited by basic physics.
Most people can not be bothered to make their own bread or biscuits on equipment they already own.
3D printers for home use are already less than $200; how many people do you know that have one?
The trending of the technology for home use is anybodies guess; my guess is that it will be trivial and hobbiests just like the people that own machinery like drill presses and milling machines.
Maybe to the typical internet generation knee jerker that immediately responds with anger and bile to what he THINKS was said as opposed to what was actually said.
Well let's see. Today when you buy plastic or ali it's bulk purchased by th e mfr and shipped often long distance. Then there are markups at each stage of distribution. That all costs. With a future 3d printer you can probably feed it the plastics & ali cans people today throw away, cost zero to scra p price, which is of course a lot cheaper.
Yes. What is the physical limit of the number of printing nozzles that can operate at once in a cube?
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