A message from my wife about a discussion with our 3 year old… Bella is missing a piece from one of her toys and when I told her it wouldn’t work now she “that’s ok we can just tell daddy to print another one!”
People keep saying 3d printers will revolutionize the world. They are right, just not in the HOW. The children growing up with desktop manufacturing available to them are the ones that will revolutionize the world. The ability to create without the prerequisite traditionally required craftsmanship is what will do it.
Look at the underlying shift in base assumption of my 3 year old, it’s not if I can fix her toy - that’s a given in her mind, it’s that it’s as simple as pressing a ‘print’ button on a computer.