3/18/2023 0 Comments Lets create pottery sculpteo![]() They don’t want a bread maker, they want bread – and I say this with some experience. People don’t want the machine, they want what comes out of it. How then, will the industry scale? I don’t think it will happen in the home. ![]() More likely we’re decades away from that – if it ever happens. This famous Nicholas Felton graphic, featured in the New York Times, does a great job of illustrating that:īut a 3D printer in every home by 2020? Most of the estimates I’ve seen show the industry selling maybe 5 million printers annually by then. “And we’re gonna work to get to there.”Ĭertainly technology adoption is getting faster. “If you ask me, five to seven years from now, I really do believe there will be a printer in every person’s home,” he said. Jaglom might have been a bit optimistic when he added this. It’s not a negligible community, but it’s not as big as we initially perceived.” They’re moving away from selling boxes to consumers and are instead focusing on solutions for education.īack in May, 2015, MakerBot announced that it would reduce its emphasis on consumers, and instead focus on the educational and professional markets.Īt the time, MakerBot CEO Jonathan Jaglom said that, “MakerBot initially addressed the right market-basically the makers, the tinkerers, the DIYs-but as MakerBot grew so did the audience space, and so then the education came in and the professional came in, and that today is becoming a much wider audience than the consumer.”įor what it’s worth, Jaglom did note that the consumer market, “is there we have people that own printers at home. More and more companies are changing their target audience. ![]() Lately, it seems the 3D printing industry is following that trend. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”.Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.“I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: I thought I’d start this article with a quote from one of my absolute favorite science fiction writers ever (Kurt Vonnegut is a very close second!)
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