With IBM’s recent announcement that it has overcome hurdles that would have stopped them from producing even smaller computer components, thus confirming Moore’s law that the power of electronics will increase exponentially every year, 3D printing is just one more technological tool that is bound to flip our lives upside down and change the world radically.
Some predict mass unemployment caused by the overwhelming presence of ever smarter robotics while 3D printing will destroy manufacturing.
Then there is also the threat from the potential of actually being able to print weapons.
The Zone, nevertheless, looked at 3D printing as a possibility of saving natural resources, reducing waste, becoming ever more efficient and precise in whatever we do, and still being able to find alternative jobs to those that may be wiped out along this 3D printing revolution.
The Zone decided step into the office of a start-up 3D printing company run by a team of young Maltese graduates to understand what exactly is the scale of their goals, why they have gone into 3D printing and how their innovative product is likely to make a global impact.