Additive manufacturing technology, more commonly known as 3D printing, is changing the world as we know it. Within the last few years, the 3D printing revolution has pioneered a new way of hyper-local manufacturing, allowing for the production of new things that were previously impossible to make. The rapidly evolving technology is making people wonder, “What will be next?” Avi Reichental, the President and CEO of 3D Systems, is the man with the answer. As the owner of the world’s first and largest 3D printing company, Reichental is on the forefront of 3D printing. In the TED Talk “What’s next in 3D printing,” Reichental advocates 3D printing technology as a way to propel society into the future while also connecting people to their heritage. …show more content…
It is now possible for anyone to obtain a 3D printer that is small enough to sit on a desk. Thus, the common question many are asking is “will we have a 3D printer in every home?”, but Reichental challenges this by stating “it’s the wrong question to ask. The right question is, how will 3D printing change my life?” (Reichental). Utilizing this inquiry, he reveals 3D printing will change the way we connect with our heritage. 3D printing has been perceived by society as the way to replace traditional manufacturing methods. Reichental’s Ted talk employs ethos, logos, and pathos to reveal to society that with digital fabrication, we are able to honor the past while manufacturing the …show more content…
One of the problems facing the future of 3D printing is that not everybody knows hot to use CAD to create 3D objects on a computer. To solve this problem, he mentions that 3D Systems develops 3D scanners and “haptics, perceptual devices that will allow you to touch and feel your designs as if you play with digital clay” (Reichental). He successfully responds to this issue, but in doing so reveals a more important issue that he fails to respond to. With the ability for individuals to create physical things digitally, there is also the unintended result such as “democratized counterfeiting and ubiquitous illegal possession” through 3D printed objects. Following the statement of this huge problem facing the future of 3D printing, Reichental changes the subject, utilizing the Red Herring Fallacy, by stating “So many people ask me, will we have a 3D printer in every home?” (Reichental). When asking the interesting question of having a printer in every home, it distracts the audience from the important issue of counterfeiting and illegal possession through a more appealing topic. Reichental effectively addresses the argument, but fails to provide a solution to it, thus making the audience forget that it was even mentioned. This use of a Red Herring Fallacy furthers the purpose of the talk by effectively
Technology is evolving and growing as fast as Moore’s Law has predicted. Every year a new device or process is introduced and legacy devices becomes obsolete. Twenty years ago, no one ever thought that foldable and paper screens would be even feasible. Today, although it isn’t a consumer product yet, foldable and paper screens are a reality. Home automation, a more prominent example of new technologies that were science fiction years ago are now becoming an integral part of life. As technology and its foothold in today’s world grows, its effects on humanity begin to show and much more prominently than ever. In his essay, O.k. Glass, Gary Shteyngart shows the effects of technology in general and on a personal note. Through the use of literary
John Horvat II, from “Five Ways Technology Is Taking Over Your Life,” is an illustrator, researcher, international speaker, and a contributor to “The Blaze” website, and also an author of books. The main point from this article is that technology is a bigger problem now, technology is supposed to be a beneficial resource but not to the point that we get handled by it. The author strongest asset is the use of pathos to get to the audience emotions and make them believe that he’s right. The audience of this article are people who use technology in an excessive way, which is majority of the people, so he is basically referring to everyone who have a relationship with technology.
In summary, both the article and the novel critique the public’s reliance on technology. This topic is relevant today because Feed because it may be how frightening the future society may look like.
With the massive rise in the quality, lower prices and availability 3d printers anybody anywhere in the world now has the ability to produce almost anything they like. Websites like https://www.thingiverse.com/ offer millions of models for almost anything someone needs to produce. Websites like https://www.upwork.com offer online consulting for 3d modelers that will design anything you need. Prior to the availability of 3d printers anything that was designed had to be manufactured at professional production facilities at huge costs relative to 3d printing it. 3d Printing lowers the barriers of entry into a market that was previously dominated by a few people because of the cost of prototyping.
3D printing, the process of making 3-Dimensional solid objects from a digital model, is now a turning into a revolution. With the price, stretching from many thousands to the cheapest, at $350, this technology can be used in the simplest boutiques and labs to the largest of industries. Mainstream media is only now popularizing 3D printing, although it has been around for decades. Being able to print absolutely anything, with almost any industrial material, it has already set up many debates for a positive or negative future.
In additive manufacturing, parts are produced by slicing a CAD model into thin layers and then depositing material one layer at a time to create the 3D part. While current methods are very precise and have high resolutions, I have identified 3 main limitations of additive manufacturing.
Due to my experience in the Hawker group, I want to continue doing additive manufacturing. I am interested in working in the additive manufacturing unit at Lawrence Livermore. I am interested in continuing working with photopolmerization 3D printers but also want to expand my horizon by exploring composites and metals. I spoke with Dr. Monica Moya at a conference about 3D printed cells. It would be intersting to integrate biopolymers to allow tissue scaffolding to these 3D printed cells. I also read that lawrence livermore is the first lab that successfully printed carbon nanofiber using direct ink writing. I know my previous experience with a novel 3D printer will be helpful for building new revolutionary additive manufacturing methods.
Proof X is a 3D biomedical printing company; its technology has redefied the standards for patient care by refining the approach in the world of medicine. Proof X creates 3D printing that produces exact replicas of three-dimensional objects from a digital file. 3D printing is not your standard printing we are familiar with such as the ink and paper printing. Instead Proof X 3D printing uses a variety of other materials like plastic, glass, metal, polymers, wax, or sand and glue mix.
In order to analyze its pros and cons, we need to know the technology first. As one of the advertisements states, “3D Printing: Make anything you want”. Of course, with the current maturity of this technology, this line exaggerates its effects, yet it certainly has a point. 3D printing is “a mechanical process whereby solid objects are created by ‘printing’ successive layers of material to replicate a shape modeled on a computer.
"How 3-D Printing Could Disrupt the Economy of the Future." Bloomberg View. Bloomberg L.P., 14 May 2013. Web. 11 May 2014.
3D printers have been linked all the way back to 1952 as an adaption of Computer Numeric Controlled machines which were early computers wired to milling machines (Martin Bowden, & Merrill, 2014, 31). The milling machines would start with one big solid piece of material and then use lasers and water-jet cutting to shave off material until the desired result was achieved (Martin et al., 2014, 31). This is quite the difference from 3D printers nowadays because the more modern printers print out material instead of shaving off material. These machines were used because the reliability and accuracy of a
4D printing offers the ability to make things that literally pull themselves together. The technology could also create objects that last longer than their 3D-printed counterparts and adapt to specific conditions on command. 4D printing is relay about using a 3d printer to print self requfingering programmable material. For example you have a non-living object that can change his shape and behavior over time kind like a robot but no microprocessors, in fact something that looks like a plastic. Skylar Tibet’s, the man who came up with whole idea has gone even fodder; he created a programmable sheet material. It look like a plastic, that in combination with the water it could change the shape in the cube. And the cube is just a beginning. It will be a million of shapes. It could be so useful, not just on the Earth but in the orbit as well. This idea could change the world, and living on it. Imagine you could just print your furniture. An...
Why go to stores and spend lots of money buying toys, jewelry, cups and many other plastic utilities when you can only press one button and print them out for yourself. This futuristic idea is not only innovating the scientific and technological world, but it is also innovating modern day households. The possibilities of 3D printing are extremely captivating, making this one of the most exciting innovations in recent times. 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, makes three-dimensional solid objects from a digital model or command. To picture how this process works, 3D printers use an additive process, where adding layers of a successive material creates an object. Traditional machines, however, uses a subtractive process by cutting or removing a specific material to shape the desired object. This mean of production can be known as a “democratization” of manufacturing since it promises a huge potential for creativity to let loose, offering a realistic possibility for everyone to produce almost any type of object. With over one-hundred different materials a 3D printer can print in, the possibilities of this new type of technology are marveling. For this reason, this new technological revolution demonstrates great potential because we will be able to use it as a household level of production, it will foster economic growth and it will be of great interest to the public.
When I think about 3D design and 3D printing I think about the future and what it will hold for my generation and the generations to come. 3D printing is just one representation of how much our technology has advanced and continues to by the day. When I heard we were going to be doing a 3D design project, I was ecstatic. I instantly looked up ideas for my earbuds, which was also part of the researching for the engineering design process. I knew my earbud holder was going to be an animal, and as I’m just beginning to do 3D design, I didn’t want to bite off more than I could chew, so I wasn’t going to do anything too hard. That’s when I decided on an owl. I pretty much knew from the beginning that, that was the animal I was going to be using
There is no doubt that the accomplishments made through technology are astonishing. Technology has made amazing impacts on everything from science in space to medical science to the devices we use every day that make our lives easier. People are living longer and better than ever before, but we can’t forget how to live without it. “Just because technology is there and makes something easier doesn’t mean we should rely on it so much that we can’t think for ourselves,” (Levinson).