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Debaser82
 

Registered: Aug 2008
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03-02-12 07:55 AM

I read in the future they will be able to print houses...

But on a smaller scale.... This technology could reverse the outsourcing of production...

I know very little of the matter, only what I read in main stream media, so if you are in the know about it please contribute...

And what stocks will do wel from it...

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morganist
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Registered: Sep 2008
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03-02-12 08:04 AM

They already do this. But it is expensive to set up the manufacturing base using this technology.

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NetTecture
 

Registered: Mar 2009
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03-02-12 09:32 AM


Quote from Debaser82:

This technology could reverse the outsourcing of production...



Ok, wha crazy logic would validate that?

It may destroy the outsourcing side, but it won't reverse it. If I print my own phone at home, I wont buy one from a factory anywhere, so "1 outsouced worker" is replaced with "0 workers".

I fail to see any sensible reverse happening if that works decently. if anything it will erode a lot more jobs which puts a lot more people unti the "not needed" category.

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eusdaiki
 

Registered: Sep 2005
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03-02-12 07:03 PM


Quote from NetTecture:

Ok, wha crazy logic would validate that?

It may destroy the outsourcing side, but it won't reverse it. If I print my own phone at home, I wont buy one from a factory anywhere, so "1 outsouced worker" is replaced with "0 workers".

I fail to see any sensible reverse happening if that works decently. if anything it will erode a lot more jobs which puts a lot more people unti the "not needed" category.

It won't necessarily affect outsourcing. Since you can outsource the design of that phone you're printing... but it will certainly kill manufacturing as we know it today.

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wartrace
 

Registered: Dec 2006
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03-03-12 12:04 AM

I recently saw them use this technology on an episode of "This old house" (one of the three television shows I watch)

It was amazing albeit somewhat slow. They could "build up" a 3-d model of a drawing out of plastic resins and of course with the correct colors.

The days of an architect creating a paper model of a project are over. Of course this is also useful for creating mock ups of anything.

They aren't going to be able to produce "products" with this technology- it is just plastic resin. This is only going to be useful in the design phase of things (at least for the time being).

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Eight
 

Registered: Mar 2009
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03-03-12 12:24 AM

Wikipedia has a good article on "rapid prototyping" that will get anybody up to tutorial level knowledge on the subject.

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