Greg Beato on the 3D Economy

In almost all visions of
the 3D printed future, manufacturing changes
dramatically. If a high-end 3D printer can fabricate a pistol or a
panini press on demand, why bother with huge production runs,
global distribution networks, warehoused inventories, and the cheap
human labor that only under-regulated developing nations can
provide? Greg Beato warns that once the retail and manufacturing
carnage starts to scale, the government carnage will soon
follow.

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