Rapid prototyping is awesome.  To see it in person shows how much promise we have in the world if we’d stop being prisoners to banksters and paying for their failure rather than sponsoring real genius in society.  Check this out:

ZCorporation 450 rapid prototyping machine

To make an analogy, today’s rapid prototyping machines are like the dot matrix printers of 40 years ago.  To think where we’ll be in 20 years bends the mind.

We do have to remember that it is a toxic process as well.  Nothing is free.

Rapid prototyping is the future of all manufacturing.  You will build all products on a nano-scale.  A CAD file will be created in one country and that company will have manufacturing centers all over the world that build products purchase by purchase.  No more inventory buildup or shipping products across oceans.  It’s already happening in engineering firms across the world.  It’s not long until you get your kid’s latest toy that way.  Amazing.

The cost to operate in this world is falling.  Just as record and movie companies are seeing this, manufacturing will come up against stolen IP in the form of CAD designs.  Organized criminals will seek out CAD files via industrial espionage or good old fashion stealing.  That will allow them to create fakes that are indistinguishable from the original.  It’s a paradigm shift; it sounds like science fiction.

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