3D Printer Filament Is Reinventing Everything

By Dorothy Miller


It is doubtful that anyone could have imagined the technological breakthrough of the three-dimensional printers. Although it is still little more than a toy to most people, this toy is better than Lego blocks, erector sets, fashion plates, and real working Hot Wheels combined. With a little 3D printer filament, the boundaries of potential creation do not exist.

Those first brave souls to pry open their crate and attempt to comprehend the owners manual barely knew what they held in their hands. They learned how to be inventors for the invention, while the world slept. It was not until average people began to understand exactly how this technology could impact their lives, improve it, before the world began to take notice.

It was the Hobby Lobby crowd that first gave us a peek into this new potential. Holiday ornaments began to appear on social media pages, then there were solar powered self lighting versions, and finally there were ornaments that functioned like tiny machines, jingling with the power of motion. These first shiny objects of idle entertainment sparked the first embers of recognized potential.

Parents were probably the first and most unexpected wave of buyers for this new tech. Specifically, parents of children with missing limbs. These parents learned to use this tool to make moving hands, arms, and fingers for their children so that they could grasp their world with something more elegant than a claw.

As with any new toys that yuppies take a shine to, the variations on materials will expand as long as their credit limits last. One of the next items the world came to behold, printed right in some gamer geeks living room, were musical instruments. Many of them are basic electric and bass guitars, but there are some unique one-of-a-kind gems out there which even their creator was hard-pressed to find a name for.

Not even fashion will be safe from the flood of brilliant creation being independently generated by average people. With so few limits to what can be done, even the clothing itself has expanded outside of the second dimension. The mind of genius with the hands of technology can now exist in every single home, everywhere on the planet, limited only by the availability of the filaments they use.

Erupting from this flood of creative flow came yet another unexpected tsunami of potential. The implications of using this type of manufacturing in order to create body parts from stem cells carries a heavy implication that our bodies could one day be self-maintained biological machines, and we can be our own mechanics. This potential for all of us to live longer and better without doctors is heavy.

Now we KNOW we will be pushed to drink because three-dimensional printing has just replaced every warehouse worker, seamstress, artisan instrument creator, and the entire medical community. It would seem that this is telling us it is time for the human race to rethink everything we ever imagined our future could be. There are no limits, but we are going to have to find some new ways to keep ourselves occupied.




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