Thursday, November 6, 2014

Developing Technology (part 4)


3D-printing is set to totally change the way we live in the future. We thought that Amazon delivering packages by drones flying to our doorsteps was the wave of the future, but 3D printing may make many drone deliveries entirely unnecessary. Imagine logging into Amazon and placing your order, paying, and then clicking “print.” Your 3D printer hums to life and prints out the object you just paid for! This is not at all far-fetched, or even that far away—we can already scan objects with 3D scanners and send the digital information to a 3D printer on the other side of the world to be printed out. However, what are the implications of this technology upon our society? Some items that are not so easily attained (such as weapons) might be available through illicit websites. Already, people have been experimenting with printing 3D guns, and although police say that firing a 3D gun is more dangerous to the user than the person he's aiming at, people are finding ways around this...

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