I know pretty much everyone who makes stuff at home now has a decent printer as part of their tools and knows how to design basic stuff. The thing is people tinkering with stuff has become niche, as most people now no longer care to know how stuff works and just buy new when something breaks.
For those who do fix things or build/craft them, a 3D printer is now a pretty standard and mature part of the toolset.
It did revolutionise things especially in the home (in the industry it already had, we just didn't know it because it was hidden behind prototype NDAs and hundreds of thousands of dollar price tags). That's pretty great for a piece of tech. It democratised the ability to custom design, share such designs and manufacture them reliably to the masses. Only a niche of the masses is interested in that because most of them are mindless consumer drones, but still.
People expect too much these days. VR was never going to revolutionise everything. That's just what some circlejerking investors were telling themselves. But it will revolutionise some usecases it's good at. It's opening an amazing new door in terms of storytelling and art for one. It's not shaking up the whole world but it doesn't have to to be a success. I'm a bit sick of these hype men calling everything a flop if it isn't providing their imaginary 2000% return in two years.
The same with AI. It's good at some things and totally sucks at many others. They're trying to shoehorn it into everything again and making it a failure.
For those who do fix things or build/craft them, a 3D printer is now a pretty standard and mature part of the toolset.
It did revolutionise things especially in the home (in the industry it already had, we just didn't know it because it was hidden behind prototype NDAs and hundreds of thousands of dollar price tags). That's pretty great for a piece of tech. It democratised the ability to custom design, share such designs and manufacture them reliably to the masses. Only a niche of the masses is interested in that because most of them are mindless consumer drones, but still.
People expect too much these days. VR was never going to revolutionise everything. That's just what some circlejerking investors were telling themselves. But it will revolutionise some usecases it's good at. It's opening an amazing new door in terms of storytelling and art for one. It's not shaking up the whole world but it doesn't have to to be a success. I'm a bit sick of these hype men calling everything a flop if it isn't providing their imaginary 2000% return in two years.
The same with AI. It's good at some things and totally sucks at many others. They're trying to shoehorn it into everything again and making it a failure.