1. The Rise of 3D Printing
The Industrial Revolution of the late 1700s through to the mid-1800s brought about a radical change in the social and economic fabric of society. It was so radical a change that analysts, even a few decades earlier, didn’t see it coming.
Before then, agriculture occupied well over 90% of the population and individuals fabricated nearly all human-made objects one at a time. In fact, in many cases it was the end user of a product who handled the fabrication.
The Industrial Revolution began the shift away from hand-made products to machine-made ones, the use of coal instead of wood, new chemical processes, and new processes for refining iron and making steel.
This continued through into the early twenty-first century. ...
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