Few manufacturing news stories get picked up by the mainstream media, let alone make it to the cover of The Economist magazine, which called 3D printing the “Third Industrial Revolution.”
The media also fixated on a gun which could be made with an inexpensive 3D printer. No wonder I get asked if 3D printing will put machine shops out of business.
To paraphrase Mark Twain, the demise of traditional manufacturing, at the hands of 3D printing, has been greatly exaggerated.
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