TECHNOLOGY PROMISES TO AMAZE, CHALLENGE US
If you think life changed after the Internet emerged, wait until you see what’s coming next.
Tech people say three-dimensional printing will create the next wave of joys and frustrations, job creation and job loss.
In five to 10 years, 3-D printers will be all around us, they predict. The printers will make food, including customized wedding cakes. They will make shoes, clothes, aircraft parts, dresses, steaks, replacement bones and eventually even replacement kidneys. If you find that bit about the kidney hard to believe, Google a company called Organovo.
The printers might make outsourcing jobs to China, India and Mexico less necessary. Few Americans will mourn.
But 3-D printers also would diminish the number of jobs here and everywhere.
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