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See the Factory@Home report, pp. 36-37 [1]
Introduction
by Hod Lipson & Melba Kurman:
"The same forces that transformed information technologies will introduce the descendents of industrial manufacturing technologies and design software into our daily lives.
Personalized design and manufacturing machines will be an emancipating technology, creating freedom for people to work and play independently in ways that were previously restricted to an elite few.
According to Marshall Burns, previous emancipating technologies in human history were the book (enabled by the invention of the printing press), cars (enabled by new roads and gas stations) and now personal fabrication (enabled by 3D design software). What this random collection of technologies has in common is that they entered the lives of everyday people in a gradual way as the technology dropped in price, became easy to use, and accumulated a critical mass of applications, fellow users, or supportive infrastructure such as roads or high speed Internet. While mainstream adoption of personal manufacturing technologies is a few decades away, the manufacturing industry will experience the same forces that brought us YouTube, laptops, mobile phones and online retailers." (http://web.mae.cornell.edu/lipson/FactoryAtHome.pdf)