Ten Lessons, Ten Quotes

LESSON ONE: 3D PRINTING CAN NOT ONLY HAVE POSITIVE ATTRIBUTES

“The benefits 3D printing technology brings in are undoubted; but imagining we can print out almost everything we need may cause more problems that you thought.” By Xin Lin 9/6 @ 2:06PM

LESSON TWO: 3D PRINTING MAKES THE IMPOSSIBLE, POSSIBLE

“3D printing is “like the magic wand of childhood fairy tales, 3D printing offers us the promise of control over the physical world.”  By Jewel Tolbert 9/5 @ 12:19PM

LESSON THREE: ANYTHING CREATED IN MASS PRODUCTION HAS TO LACK SOMEWHERE

“Mass production can’t offer both companies and consumers good, fast and cheap goods”.  By Luis Munive 9/16 @ 12:39PM

LESSON FOUR: NO MATTER WHAT YOU MAKE, MAKERS ALL COME TOGETHER BECAUSE OF A COMMON LOVE FOR INNOVATION

“Even though the makers of Glif chose traditional manufacturing methods to create their product, they still embody the principles of the Maker community. They are motivated by “creativity, social change, and problem solving”, instead of profit.” By Frank 9/16 1:37PM

LESSON FIVE: 3D PRINTING CAN LEAD TO FURTHER, MORE ACCESSIBLE MEANS OF ENABLING DYSMORPHIA.

“Unless 3d printing body parts becomes easily accessible to both the rich and poor, the future may be a dystopian world of the ever-young & rich vs. the old & poor.” By Millicent Cheu 10/6 @ 932PM

LESSON SIX: 3D PRINTING CAN BE VERY ECO-FRIENDLY

“Solar Sintering is ecologically ingenious because it runs on solar energy and the printer’s “laser” is concentrated sunlight. As the designer Marcus described it ” In this experiment, sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D printing process that combines natural energy and material with high-tech production technology”. It shows how effective and Eco-friendly the machine is to the environment.” By Jia Jing Lei 10/14 @ 10:26AM

LESSON SEVEN: 3D PRINTING TECHNOLOGY WILL EVENTUALLY ALLOW US TO REMAKE ROBOTS THAT ARE ESSENTIALLY FUNCTIONAL IN REAL LIFE

“Chapter 14 mentions an “intelligence explosion” where machines will strive to produce and develop even more sophisticated machines similar to how humans are striving to create our robotic counterparts.” By ep145853 10/28 @ 2:36 PM

LESSON EIGHT: 3D PRINTING WILL BE EASY ENOUGH FOR A SIX YEAR OLD TO USE

“A kid in age six can design his own thing with 3D printing technology.” By Xin Lin 10/28 @ 3:03 PM

LESSON NINE: 3D PRINTED OBJECTS WILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO CONFORM DEPENDING ON THE NEEDS SURROUNDING IT

“In Chapter 14 what I feel like is the most important in the chapter is the ability to blend multiple materials. These blended materials will have better properties than their previous versions because of the controlled randomness that we are able to program into them.” By sb164538 10/28 @ 3:45 PM

LESSON TEN: 3D PRINTING MAY INFLUENCE LAZYNESS IN SOCIETY

“Everything is going to be handed to your hands without actually any work put in it.” By l.munive 9/3 @ 1:32 PM