We’re living through the 3D printing revolution, although it’s happening so slowly you would be forgiven for not realising it. But then mobile phones snuck up on us too – in less than a decade from a thing that did calls, texts and Snake to one of the main enablers of African economic growth. You’ve got to keep on top of these things. That might mean literally getting onto a piece of furniture made from fungus.
There are two parts of what 3D printing entails. There’s the actual printing, and then there’s the system that generates the models that are printed. The latter of these is the revolutionary bit – it means that we’re going to end up facing the problem of object piracy, and the reversal of the Industrial Revolution’s centralisation of production for certain kinds of products.
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