Interview: The Ability to Make Anything is Technologically Within Our Grasp

3d-printing
3d-printing

 

Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Professor at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, on the implication on society when it comes to 3D printing technology, the many different kinds of digital fabrication machines there are, whether we’ll be able to make whatever we need in the future, and the way this level of self sufficiency could change societies across the planet: