In recent years, 3D printing has become available to consumers. Two things come to mind. First is that we’ve come so far; we can celebrate the fact that we can now 3D-print at home. Second, the technology is neat but it still has much room for improvement.
At present, we mostly 3D-print single plastic objects and voila! “Hey! I printed this nice Ultimaker Robot!” At that, we’re either really in love with the piece or we simply appreciate that we can 3D-print. Eventually we’ll print more things. From toys to useful objects, name it. Single objects: they make us happy. Some people 3D-print single objects to be assembled with other single objects and produce ingenious contraptions. We break barriers and become inventors!
What about the future? Right now, high-end 3D-printers available to us are deemed fast but surely, in time, they will be much faster. There’s so much we need to learn to maintain them, but in the future, it’ll be more carefree. We’d want to think of the whole thing as the period where computers were new. They started out humbly but their advancement eventually went rapid. The same would go for 3D-printing. We can all count on that.