Wednesday, October 10, 2012

3D Printing


3D printing technology is undoubtedly an exciting one of this time. The current additive technology is not perfect enough to manufacture everything, but it is not far in future when it will help the inventors to develop their prototype easily by 3D printer. 

The advantage of this additive technology has many folds. It will help to manufacture like daily goods to even fine electronics, which will reduce manufacturing cost, as well as human labor. Researchers can develop small prototypes with this technology. Also mass availability will help everyone to make their own product by themselves.

However, we need to think about the some negative impacts of this technology. What if someone wants to manufacture a gun? Will there be any protection mechanism embedded into the 3D printer to protect this sort of misuse. Or how the copyright laws or patent laws will be maintained? How about keeping track of manufactured products by companies? These issues need to be solved before mass marketing of 3D printer.

In my opinion, this technology will be a big lift in manufacturing industry in future. But the unsolved issues need to be addressed before make it available to the mass people. 

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