Lowdown: 3D printers

Nick Hirst

People are already predicting that, in the long term, 3D printing will revolutionise the relationship between manufacturers and consumers.

Lowdown: 3D printers

Nick HirstDare

It's said we tend to overestimate change in the short-term but underestimate it in the long-term. If that's true, it's hard to know what to make of 3D printing. Long-term, people are predicting that it will revolutionise the consumer/manufacturer relationship. There are short-term predictions too, as tech blogs ask whether 2013 is the 'year of 3D printing'. So who's overestimating? Should we care yet?

Depending on your industry, you may rely on 3D printers already: they're used to create prototypes of everything from machine parts to mobile phones. Although there are different kinds, most...

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