May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
5h 49m
English
book
3D Printing with Autodesk®: Create and Print 3D Objects with 123D, AutoCAD and Inventor
by John Biehler, Bill Fane
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17. The Future of 3D Printing
Predicting the future is notoriously inaccurate, especially when it comes to technology. Where are the flying cars that 1950s Popular Science magazine promised us “in the near future”? And vacations at space resorts on the moon? On the other hand, who predicted that fax, audiocassettes, VHS, CDs, and DVDs would disappear so quickly?
On the other, other hand “picture phones” that let you see the other person were still science fiction 10–15 years ago, but now we regularly Skype our son and his wife on another continent from our home, or from wherever we can get an Internet connection. And it’s free!
The Future According to Bill
Having said all that, here are my predictions for the future of 3D printing.
Most 3D ...
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