Fast is referring to the adoption of 3d printing as a business and consumer tool.
It’s mobile. It goes with you. It puts power in the hands of the consumer. It makes little businesses look like big businesses. It evens the playing field. We don’t even know the capabilities. We don’t know where the technology is heading. It opens up whole new industries. It opens markets. It builds better competition. It forces businesses to rethink their business models. It’s a cottage industry and it’s a conglomerate. Some of us knew about the technology for years. Some of us are just discovering it, but can already compete with the “old guard.”
Of course, we are talking about voice mail here, right? No, this must be cell phone technology. Actually, wasn’t this what everyone was saying about downloadable music?
Can’t some nasal off-tune singer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin upload a song to ITunes and compete with The Beatles?
Actually, all the technologies below had similar reviews and commentary:
Copy machines
Fax Machines
Voice Mail
Cell Phones
The Internet
Portable Radios
Television
Downloadable music
Movies on demand
Voice over IP
Smart phones
PC’s
Apps
Tablet computers
GPS devices
Mobile media
and the list goes on…
What happened with, say, copy machines? For decades large firms were the only ones who could afford them. As demand increased, copy shops started opening up (like Kinkos) and small businesses as well as consumers could get their copies at these copy shops. Then came small business and personal copiers. Now there is one on my desk that cost $99 and scans, prints, acts a fax machine and copies in color. This all took 25 years? 3d printing has been around for about 25 years, but now the small business and consumer boom is happening