Almost 5 years later and we have seen alot of change with 3D printing, the closing of large 3D printing companies, startups valued at millions of dollars, and cheaper hobby grade printers anyone can afford. What has not changed is the fact 3D printing still has not made a cut into main stream manufacturing.
They have not heard yet even after about 6+ years that the horizontal weakness is solved by baking the items just until the materials fuse better. Time and temp vary by material. High school interns solved the problem when asked at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, a federal agency. The Ph.D. supervisor tells everybody about it. 3D printing was created to provide the space station with replacement parts. 1/3rd to 1/2 of a sea going ship's cargo is replacement parts. That is unrealistic for space travel. The Mayflower would have floundered at sea except 5hsyvone passenger happened to have a large enough screw to re-secure the mast after a big storm. Pethsps the most useful earth application would be 3D printing houses for under $5,000 each, IF building standards did not demand 2" x 4" studs!
Avi is probably one of the men I look up to the most in my life. He and his wife have both positively impacted my life in more ways than one. This man started with absolutely nothing scrubbing floors and is now a pioneer in an industry which I believe holds the potential to change the world in countless magnificent ways.
I remember less than ten years ago saying "I'll be impressed with the internet when I can print food". I am so very happy to see it become a reality :D
This talk kind of reminded me of The Big Lebowski, where the character Walter Sobchak related any event or issue to the war in Vietnam. It turns out that's not the only thing you can relate to something unrelated. 3D printing, it turns out, is all about the Holocaust.
Its videos like this is why I love TED.... So much to learn and experience in this world so many truths right in front of us. 3D printing has always fascinated me but I know Very little. Must change this
You can build your own 3D printer at home (with the right tools and homework; knowledge) and have your "ghetto" printer print a housing for it. It's really cool. The machine (once up and running) will upgrade everything around you. including the 3D printer itself.
The great thing for 3D printing (and some can even print colors too), for me, is the execution of models. Image the latest Transformers movie or Destiny videogame, you put the BluRay in your computer and it comes with a code/app to 3dprint your favorite robot, statue or action figure. Image someone doing a awesome model of a mecha, or a known actor, or even one of the classics of the great renaisance sculptures, puting it online and you can print it at home. No more packages, customs, out of stock, out of sale, lost in mail situations... The future is indeed great.
Alvin Ticket and his wife wrote Future Shock. It remains a classic. I just learned last week that ATMs are going to be vanishing. People just aren't going to be carrying cash.
Very interesting...the 'desktop' 3D printing development is moving ahead at a great pace. We could see a lot of innovations at the Maker Fair in NY. At the moment the filament types are increasing rapidly from PLA, ABS to Woodfill, Flexible, Copper color to high strength material. Very soon we will be able to print with paste/nutella at a fraction of a cost of industrial printers. We, at Felixusa, are certainly looking forward to the future !
I can't wait to see what becomes of 3D printing. When we use different chemicals and plastics to create more malleable products. Softer products, with greater precision. Fully and partially transparent structures or with a transparency gradient even.
Another breathlessly excited video about the brave new world. I notice he didn't talk about 3D printed guns, custom designed bombs, and all the other ways that the same technology can be abused. Not actually being a naysayer - all the stuff he talked about is exciting, but we need to approach it with equal measures of excitement and caution.
It's much easier, quicker, cheaper and more reliable to make a gun out of parts you find at a hardware store. You could google for plans for a pipegun, and with about $20 and a trip to the hardware store you can have a weapon that will fire shotgun shells by the end of the afternoon. Any gun you 3D print will need a several thousand dollar machine to even attempt, will take hours to print, hours to clean up, and at beast will fire a couple of shots before failing. People who are experienced with milling metal and have access to a shop can make ACTUAL weapons that shoot reliably and repeatably. Oh, and if you live in the US, you can find weapons on forums (or very likely a legal local shop) much much cheaper than the cost of a 3D printer. Please explain to me why people are so alarmist about 3D printing again? If this is a valid issue for you, you should be more concerned with regulating the sale of power tools more than 3d printers. Nothing about 3D printing makes it uniquely effective for making weapons or bombs, and in most cases making these things by hand would be much simpler, faster and cheaper.
even if we had household 3d printers, doesn't mean we're gonna actually go ahead and print guns. the fact of the matter is that us as people know better than to do so. aside from that, a 3d printer can only make the bear essentials of a gun. those without expertise are still gonna have a hard time assembling it and the weapon itself is only good for several shots or so.
Stan Velijev You make a fair point about the milling (I assume - I know nothing about gun manufacture), but I know that right now, in a country where guns are illegal, I could undoubtedly acquire the plans and expertise to create my own 3D guns. I'm not being alarmist at all. There are consumer 3D printers that can print using alloys right now. Yes they may be expensive at the moment, but not for long. Remember when CD writers cost £800 and required dedicated hard drives costing a further £1000? And in less than 15 years, you can not only buy them for £15, but they're almost obsolete! Was it alarmist to warn about the dangers of the internet? Nuclear fission? Biological warfare? Smart robots? Nanotechnology? All are now potential threats to the future of mankind. This is probably a much smaller scale of threat, but one worth considering nevertheless. Suddenly, all people need is a little CAD knowledge, and a £3000 printer, and they are able to manufacture all manner of complex devices that may have been beyond their means before.
Vociferous Daew I think you're being INCREDIBLY naïve. Remember when the Anarchist's cookbook was a thing on the internet? And society is still paying the price for that getting into the wild. I wonder how many lives that cost? To say that "we" are not interested in making guns, assumes that the rest of the world is like you - presumably peaceful. 10 seconds of watching the news makes a mockery of that belief.
I think far more interesting is what is being called 4d printing (Skylar Tibbet), objects that change in reaction to temperature, like a thermostat valve, or ventilation scales on a building or clothing.
Horizontal weakness can be eliminated by baking the product in an oven just until more solid funding occurs. Time and temperature vary according to NIST in Gaithersburg. Maryland, a federal agency. They asked their high school interns to solve the problem. The high schoolers did.
Nah, sounds good. The phone is the most important new thing everyone has. I want a case with an extension with a hole in it so I can bolt it on to a pole to get sweet camera shots.
TheLivirus Fair enough, but a lot of items that we use are probably better than 3D printed versions. I haven't seen any 3D printed objects with my own eyes, but it seems like the plastic would be could phone case material. I'm sure if I had a 3D printer I could find out what good uses they have and find a way to make something cool (if I could use what seems to be complicated 3D programs).
Agerr Gerra I only know FDM by first hand experience, and in that case you can almost make any shape you want that's plastic. There are however some limitations. It has a resolution, meaning there is a minimum thickness you can obtain and all dimensions has to be specified in terms of discrete increments. It is also not possible to create completely closed hallow shapes as this makes it impossible to remove the support material. This is just one among many 3D printing principles though. I think SLA for example is more flexible when it comes to dimensions.
With a bit of passion and determination, you can do anything even without a 3D printer. You have your hands, no need for a machine to do all the work for you.
There is a lot of hype with 3D printing and I don't see it soon replacing conventional manufacturing for anything but low production specialized custom parts in mainly an industrial environment. The raw materials needed to be stocked by consumers in their homes to be able to print anything but a very small selection of useful items would be vast, expensive, and impractical.
yeah i agree with you,also tapes were better because they didnt scratch as easily and when cds were just invented they definitely had a higher price! they were also impractical since pretty much no one had dvd-players and almost no movies were sold on them. i hope you understand what im doing right now.
DIVAD291 Yes I get your point but it's not about initial cost or adoption, it's about the physical limitations of raw materials. CD's were vastly superior in audio quality or durability to what they replaced but the opposite is true for non specialized 3D printing. There are literally hundreds of polymers and metal alloys used in manufacturing and for good reason. I'm not saying home 3D printing instead of buying things from a store is impossible, I'm just saying the capabilities are over hyped and there are some significant material limitations when you consider a home printer requiring dozens of raw material 3d "inks" to be even remotely useful. People think they will soon be super fast like inkjet printers for example but there is a ceiling to how fast you can squirt plastic through a tiny nozzle before the polymer destroys itself. They are going to be slow until new materials and processes are invented. This isn't a printer hardware and software issue, it's a materials issue. Think decades not years. Don't forget, if we can 3D print finished parts we can also 3D print the custom tools for manufacturing low production custom runs cheaper and faster too so there will be even less need to do it at home. I see them as sort of modern day bread machines that enabled us all to have cheap warm homemade bread at the push of a button without driving to the store. That novelty soon wore off though because the bread really isn't that great and you still have ingredients to buy, store and put in the machine.
theslimeylimey Very good. And the bread really never was very good, even though it's potentially very economical. The real winners were the manufacturers, for a while. You have to have a clear and broad understanding of 'need' to be much good at predicting widespread human behavior.
Ross Kennedy Well that was kind of my point and you supported it. 3D printing already is and will continue to be very useful in an industrial manufacturing environment but I was talking about domestic use. It appears to me many people think that all we need is another generation of 3D printers and five years from now we'll be able to print ourselves a new pair of Nikes at home while we watch Netflix and that simply is not going to happen. Nobody can say for sure what technology will be available in 20 or 30 years time but don't expect miracles. 3D printing has changed very little over the past decade so keep that in mind.
More comments were posted when 3D printing was in the news frequently. 3D printers were in sale in Sam's Club about then, too. Now, a wide variety of them are available online. The TED Talk was delivered to your feed by alogrithms. I looked at a few tiny house videos out of curiosity, and my feed started including videos about living in cargo vans. My news feed in May 2019 started delivering the first of 20 articles about Dr. Thomas Hofeller, the guy in charge of voter suppression and voter dilution for DECADES before his death. I don't know why the alogrithm delivered the first of those, maybe because I click on articles about law. The horizontal weakness in 3D printing can be eliminated by baking the object in an oven to slightlyy melt and more firmly fuse the materials. This was discovered by a team if high school interns at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, a federal agency. They were asked to brainstorm and experiment and solve the problem and they did! 5gey found that the time and the temperature depend on the substance used to do the printing.
The future of 3D printing and the full circle from hand made items, to the industrial revolution, now into the age of printing items. there are lots of new and intresting ideas coming from this, I think i will watch this very closely...
The 3D house printers would eliminate homelessness, if building standards did not force the use of 2"x 4" studs. 3D printed houses of concrete don't require studs!
TED please fix the timing in the spanish captions, TED porfavor arregla el tiempo en los subtitulos en español :D Gracias, :D Thanks., By the way amazing video.
I find it funny that you're posting about that. If all you can do is quote someone, you're exactly the type of person who's going to be out of a job because you can't adapt. Good luck!
If (or rather when) I get my hands on a 3D printer I can print out custom computer cases & parts. This means I can now employ 5-10 guys so they can build & maintain the computers. basically, if I had a 3D printer, I could open up a computer repair shop. employing local guys. See?
Mike L. Yes, you can. The problems arise when hundreds of others in your area, want to do the same thing. You would most likely be out of business in a month or so, if you weren't able to provide anything special that others couldn't. Which in the 3D printing world, is quite difficult, considering how easy it would be to print something like that.
Mike L. Then we are right where we started, with not really any improvements to the employment situation. I mean there's not an infinite number of things you can 3D print, so that so many people could make a living out of it.
The problem is, especially with a company like 3D Systems Corporation, is that now it has a lot of money to blow, it's become more like a big hobby than a money-making business - as is evident by the constant downward spiral of their stock price.There will always be something new to print from some new kind of material so there will always be more and more money spent trying to keep up with that technology than money earned actually making things. By the time they have everything to make it, or have bought up all the companies that are already making so they are the only single company in control of it all, there will be new technology, new companies that spring up to take care of that technology, and more companies that 3D Systems Corporation will then feel a need to buy to continue to control the market. Kinda like a woman with money trying to keep her shoe closet filled with the latest fashion. So the answer to "What's next in 3D printing" is, "There will always be something next" but can a company actually make money at it now that the enthusiasm by investors has been deflated - I doubt it.
Wow - how many years he must have trained to get to sound exactly like a slightly garbled 80s cassette tape - and completely unaided by excess technology! Ted is awesome.
Wow, la verdad, sigue todo medio igual, ojalá fuera más así, en 5 años más seguro vuelvo a ver este vídeo y espero que que no estemos todos muertos por el cambio climático o algo así
Americans lack well trained ears. Nationals of many countries adapt better to dialect speakers. Americans only tolerate verbal differences among singers
This will be amazing I suffer from venous stasis and venous stasis ulcers in my legs severe edema if they could design something around my regular foot pattern put my foot in it keeps the swelling down it would be absolutely amazing if anybody knows if or where im will to be a tester message me please
Best of luck, but you need to choose another avenue of communication. Write emails to anyone you think could help, and keep writing them. Someone out there actually wants to help you, and actually needs you to help them get their solution out: find them, and waste no time doing so.
Gareth Field believe me I have and do I have 3 different vascular surgeons and I've seen many over the past four years there is custom boots and slippers and a lot of other things but my situation is quite a typical and I've yet to find anybody that is doing 3d measured footwear near me. Thank you so much for your reply
***** I didn't say I need a prosthetic limb I said I needed help with edema in venous stasis I looked at that website in has to do with prosthetics for children
Pippy Pappy but if i dont enjoy them why should i wear them. yeah sure the enjoyment factor is connected to , "i wonder if people will think im cool or not with wearing this or not" ... but thats like 35% of my decision of if i like them or not. to me they look to bulky . its cool that we can print stuff. but just because we can , that doesnt mean that we should. in my humble opinion, that eye wear looks so ugly and hhideous. and it would only make my ugly fugly face even uglier and more fuglier.
Duke Baatarkhuyag I dont know , religion has little to do in the global decision making. Maybe its the greatest corporations and their fear of losing profit.
Duke Baatarkhuyag I agree. The solar or electric car (no sure which one ) project was delayed back in the 90s because of the major petrol companies. But cars are a minor issue in comparison with renewable energy in toral.
I am certain that you have SOMETHING that you mention that others would prefer not to hear about as often as you talk about it. Do you know what that is?
apparently there's plans to make 3d printing '100 times faster'. meaning anyone capable of aquiring one of these things will be able to make most anything in a few minutes to an hour. (pieces and the like) . I do not consider this a good development. I'm only glad there still appear to be materials they can't manage to use...yet.
Well they are experimenting with 3D printing organs, and eventually whole human bodies. So in the future, yes you could 3D print yourself a girlfriend... Welcome to the future
They already do :) But to be honest, it's for good. No government will be able to oppress their citizens, just 3D print a gun, and defend your constitutional rights. Today all criminals have guns, government has guns, the only people who are unarmed are law abiding citizens, who frequently become the victims of groups listed earlier. Maybe advanced affordable 3D printers will finally bring equality to this place?
Awesome...this will free so much time while also allowing for people to specialise in their vocations, rather than chaining themselves to an unrewarding career with no prospects. It'll need a radical rethink of the social and economic model, but that should have been clearly seen as domestic staff positions became rarer at the turn of the last century; and seriously planned for as further industries streamlined their employees. The fault is not the technology; it is socioeconomic stubbornness on the part of political and corporate thinking. They try to disempower their populations to assure compliance and stability based on historical policies denying access to information. Those times are gone with the advent of the communications age, and this has to be recognised and adapted to most by the people who will lose what they value the most: control of others and absurdly elevated access to resources beyond the reach of the general population. Wealth should no longer equal control for the simple fact that a large proportion of those in that cosy position have little understanding or connection with the realities faced by the majority they fear gaining independence. A simple example is poverty itself. We tend to feel sorry for third world starvation and attrocities, while complaining about 'relative' poverty as though it were of the same scale. Not being capable of budgeting on the lowest support first world cultures provide for their worst off is light years away from the realities of real poverty. Yet it is continually used to justify retaining the status quo, or complain about lack of 'necessities' in the manner of spoilt children. Conclusion: People need to get off their fat comfortable asses and start thinking for themselves and creating their world instead of wailing for the next teat to be provided for them to suckle off. This is AWESOME...now bugga off and think about how you can either work with it, or how you can preserve the traditional. Preserving the traditional is the most lucrative of the lot, because there will be few who do. If you doubt that, ask your 'local' blacksmith how many Porsches they could afford rather than screaming about how everyone should be a blacksmith so that the paltry income can afford the alcohol to drown the woes of a dead end career where noone wants a soddin' horseshoe. ...or move to the third world where they actually want a horseshoe made by a specialist and carry on moaning...at least you'll have a reason to complain about lack of jobs there; they are deliberately disempowered to ensure they CAN'T have opportunities like this...it ensures the leaderships get fat off their suffering!
Jeremy Bagnol I take it you dont take what he is saying ^^ 100 years ago there was, lets say, 1000 shomakers making 1000 shoes every day. Today 1 designer desings pair of shoes which is made in 1000 copies by 10 people in manufactory every day. So, do we have more or less jobs needed to create the same amount of product?
Yup, did :) The world is speeding up. You tend to notice these things. In my youth, careers for life was still the ideal. But a sea change was in the air, and many bought into it, becoming hippie 'bums' a lot of the time; though a lot were surprisingly entrepreneurial for their day. Fast forward to the eighties and we had huge riots about pit closures here (which was understandable because it was a pretty well rewarded career choice with little immediately on offer to the same standard). Today we see unemployment rising again; and with it opportunities. Many like the comfort of familiar skills used in familiar settings; and for them there is the chance to make that work. But to expect it to be provided on tap is self defeatist. It passes responsibility to others. We bred out a lot of independence in order to allow society to function securely, because you don't want someone in charge without a clue what to do, snd surrounded by everyone else wanting to be in charge too. That is a recipe for disaster. Today, we can reclaim independence, while maintaining social stability. People are ready to achieve that, and have the resources and access to learning to ensure they understand the reason of social structure and the opportunity scientific and philosophical advances have provided. I'm happily starting a business myself because I'm educated and self motivated in a field I have some experience in. I reckon it's going to be a darn sight more satisfying doing work my way instead of having some fat dude with a bank balance and a desire to add more zeros to it as their sole qualification for employing me. I feel this is the future for us all. There are those who are talented and comfortable with the rules of another...indeed many whose bank balances are accompanied by genuine understanding of their market and the ins and outs of their business. But they are quite rare, unfortunately. Possibly his grandfather would be one of them in these times, and make shoes. But as opportunities have broadened, I'd not even try to guess. Point I'm making is embrace the new, rather than cling to the old as it drags you to the depths. ...I got all passionate and started lecturing rather than putting in the last paragraph as my post...my bad. I'll shut up now ;)
funky3ddy Maybe our tech geniuses will discover the secrets of faster-than-light star trek warp speed interstellar space travel and teleportation, and that genesis terraforming thing they had in the 2nd trek movie. Maybe these will all be invented and ready to go within five minutes from now, but I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. Except we may have to learn to live with no food and no water when global warming runs out of control, so let's cross our fingers. Because human extinction is less bad than paying a bit more for gassing up the car.
3D printing is cool and all, but id rather have neuro-surgical advances so I don't have to wait for ridiculous-looking frickin moon-suits just to walk & do it on my own. Don't get me wrong, good for her, but not everyone wants that. She might not mind the staring, but it might be much for others
are you talking about our current clothes and devices?because they sure would look like ridiculous moon-suits and gadgets if you went a couple decades back in time.
3D printing offers neuro-surgical advances. How? well when you can print anything (and i mean anything; plastic, wood, metals, and even organic material) every industry has something to gain. especially the medical field.
There are already recyclable 3d printing materials, like recyclable plastic or some sort of paper/wood, it's up to you or the companies what materials you use for printing.
Almost 5 years later and we have seen alot of change with 3D printing, the closing of large 3D printing companies, startups valued at millions of dollars, and cheaper hobby grade printers anyone can afford. What has not changed is the fact 3D printing still has not made a cut into main stream manufacturing.
They have not heard yet even after about 6+ years that the horizontal weakness is solved by baking the items just until the materials fuse better. Time and temp vary by material.
High school interns solved the problem when asked at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, a federal agency.
The Ph.D. supervisor tells everybody about it.
3D printing was created to provide the space station with replacement parts. 1/3rd to 1/2 of a sea going ship's cargo is replacement parts. That is unrealistic for space travel.
The Mayflower would have floundered at sea except 5hsyvone passenger happened to have a large enough screw to re-secure the mast after a big storm.
Pethsps the most useful earth application would be 3D printing houses for under $5,000 each, IF building standards did not demand 2" x 4" studs!
Avi is probably one of the men I look up to the most in my life. He and his wife have both positively impacted my life in more ways than one. This man started with absolutely nothing scrubbing floors and is now a pioneer in an industry which I believe holds the potential to change the world in countless magnificent ways.
I remember less than ten years ago saying "I'll be impressed with the internet when I can print food". I am so very happy to see it become a reality :D
This talk kind of reminded me of The Big Lebowski, where the character Walter Sobchak related any event or issue to the war in Vietnam. It turns out that's not the only thing you can relate to something unrelated. 3D printing, it turns out, is all about the Holocaust.
James Dreger Exactly! Neither his grandfather nor the Holocaust had anything to do with 3D printing.
Super interest talk. The next 10 years will be intriguing to watch with up and coming 3D printing technology.
Its videos like this is why I love TED.... So much to learn and experience in this world so many truths right in front of us. 3D printing has always fascinated me but I know Very little. Must change this
You can build your own 3D printer at home (with the right tools and homework; knowledge) and have your "ghetto" printer print a housing for it. It's really cool. The machine (once up and running) will upgrade everything around you. including the 3D printer itself.
Guys I swear on. My life he is my uncle avi and his wife is my anti jeniva
Jenivas last name is Jobst
The great thing for 3D printing (and some can even print colors too), for me, is the execution of models. Image the latest Transformers movie or Destiny videogame, you put the BluRay in your computer and it comes with a code/app to 3dprint your favorite robot, statue or action figure. Image someone doing a awesome model of a mecha, or a known actor, or even one of the classics of the great renaisance sculptures, puting it online and you can print it at home. No more packages, customs, out of stock, out of sale, lost in mail situations... The future is indeed great.
Excellent talk. Being born in the 70s and seeing the rate of change is trippy.
Alvin Ticket and his wife wrote Future Shock. It remains a classic. I just learned last week that ATMs are going to be vanishing. People just aren't going to be carrying cash.
Very interesting...the 'desktop' 3D printing development is moving ahead at a great pace. We could see a lot of innovations at the Maker Fair in NY. At the moment the filament types are increasing rapidly from PLA, ABS to Woodfill, Flexible, Copper color to high strength material. Very soon we will be able to print with paste/nutella at a fraction of a cost of industrial printers. We, at Felixusa, are certainly looking forward to the future !
You can hear it a million times, not now but soon. Thank You!!!!!
clearly the best channel on youtube
Dr. John Campbell on the pandemic, though.
I can't wait to have one at home someday. I've got a wish list of things to print.
first sentence just cant escape can you.
I can't wait to see what becomes of 3D printing. When we use different chemicals and plastics to create more malleable products. Softer products, with greater precision. Fully and partially transparent structures or with a transparency gradient even.
Another breathlessly excited video about the brave new world. I notice he didn't talk about 3D printed guns, custom designed bombs, and all the other ways that the same technology can be abused.
Not actually being a naysayer - all the stuff he talked about is exciting, but we need to approach it with equal measures of excitement and caution.
It's much easier, quicker, cheaper and more reliable to make a gun out of parts you find at a hardware store. You could google for plans for a pipegun, and with about $20 and a trip to the hardware store you can have a weapon that will fire shotgun shells by the end of the afternoon.
Any gun you 3D print will need a several thousand dollar machine to even attempt, will take hours to print, hours to clean up, and at beast will fire a couple of shots before failing.
People who are experienced with milling metal and have access to a shop can make ACTUAL weapons that shoot reliably and repeatably.
Oh, and if you live in the US, you can find weapons on forums (or very likely a legal local shop) much much cheaper than the cost of a 3D printer.
Please explain to me why people are so alarmist about 3D printing again? If this is a valid issue for you, you should be more concerned with regulating the sale of power tools more than 3d printers. Nothing about 3D printing makes it uniquely effective for making weapons or bombs, and in most cases making these things by hand would be much simpler, faster and cheaper.
even if we had household 3d printers, doesn't mean we're gonna actually go ahead and print guns. the fact of the matter is that us as people know better than to do so. aside from that, a 3d printer can only make the bear essentials of a gun. those without expertise are still gonna have a hard time assembling it and the weapon itself is only good for several shots or so.
Stan Velijev You make a fair point about the milling (I assume - I know nothing about gun manufacture), but I know that right now, in a country where guns are illegal, I could undoubtedly acquire the plans and expertise to create my own 3D guns.
I'm not being alarmist at all. There are consumer 3D printers that can print using alloys right now. Yes they may be expensive at the moment, but not for long. Remember when CD writers cost £800 and required dedicated hard drives costing a further £1000? And in less than 15 years, you can not only buy them for £15, but they're almost obsolete!
Was it alarmist to warn about the dangers of the internet? Nuclear fission? Biological warfare? Smart robots? Nanotechnology? All are now potential threats to the future of mankind. This is probably a much smaller scale of threat, but one worth considering nevertheless.
Suddenly, all people need is a little CAD knowledge, and a £3000 printer, and they are able to manufacture all manner of complex devices that may have been beyond their means before.
Vociferous Daew I think you're being INCREDIBLY naïve. Remember when the Anarchist's cookbook was a thing on the internet? And society is still paying the price for that getting into the wild. I wonder how many lives that cost?
To say that "we" are not interested in making guns, assumes that the rest of the world is like you - presumably peaceful. 10 seconds of watching the news makes a mockery of that belief.
If everyone printed a gun, maybe we'd be a safe as the Swiss.
That looks super!
I think far more interesting is what is being called 4d printing (Skylar Tibbet), objects that change in reaction to temperature, like a thermostat valve, or ventilation scales on a building or clothing.
wow! the ink have a variety options such as: plastic, paper, powder, polymer or metal...really incredible!!!
Horizontal weakness can be eliminated by baking the product in an oven just until more solid funding occurs.
Time and temperature vary according to NIST in Gaithersburg. Maryland, a federal agency. They asked their high school interns to solve the problem. The high schoolers did.
The only real reason I want a 3D printer is so that I can make a custom phone case, that would be pretty cool.
You can have anything you want yet all you want is a phone case? You lack imagination.
Nah, sounds good. The phone is the most important new thing everyone has. I want a case with an extension with a hole in it so I can bolt it on to a pole to get sweet camera shots.
TheLivirus
Fair enough, but a lot of items that we use are probably better than 3D printed versions. I haven't seen any 3D printed objects with my own eyes, but it seems like the plastic would be could phone case material. I'm sure if I had a 3D printer I could find out what good uses they have and find a way to make something cool (if I could use what seems to be complicated 3D programs).
Agerr Gerra I only know FDM by first hand experience, and in that case you can almost make any shape you want that's plastic. There are however some limitations. It has a resolution, meaning there is a minimum thickness you can obtain and all dimensions has to be specified in terms of discrete increments. It is also not possible to create completely closed hallow shapes as this makes it impossible to remove the support material. This is just one among many 3D printing principles though. I think SLA for example is more flexible when it comes to dimensions.
With a bit of passion and determination, you can do anything even without a 3D printer. You have your hands, no need for a machine to do all the work for you.
Great talk. Thank you TED
"Avi Reichental is a maker of things."
thats wonderful
A great new technology! It will enrich and improve our lives.
When did rapid prototyping become 3d printing?
There is a lot of hype with 3D printing and I don't see it soon replacing conventional manufacturing for anything but low production specialized custom parts in mainly an industrial environment. The raw materials needed to be stocked by consumers in their homes to be able to print anything but a very small selection of useful items would be vast, expensive, and impractical.
yeah i agree with you,also tapes were better because they didnt scratch as easily and when cds were just invented they definitely had a higher price! they were also impractical since pretty much no one had dvd-players and almost no movies were sold on them.
i hope you understand what im doing right now.
DIVAD291 Yes I get your point but it's not about initial cost or adoption, it's about the physical limitations of raw materials. CD's were vastly superior in audio quality or durability to what they replaced but the opposite is true for non specialized 3D printing.
There are literally hundreds of polymers and metal alloys used in manufacturing and for good reason. I'm not saying home 3D printing instead of buying things from a store is impossible, I'm just saying the capabilities are over hyped and there are some significant material limitations when you consider a home printer requiring dozens of raw material 3d "inks" to be even remotely useful.
People think they will soon be super fast like inkjet printers for example but there is a ceiling to how fast you can squirt plastic through a tiny nozzle before the polymer destroys itself. They are going to be slow until new materials and processes are invented. This isn't a printer hardware and software issue, it's a materials issue. Think decades not years.
Don't forget, if we can 3D print finished parts we can also 3D print the custom tools for manufacturing low production custom runs cheaper and faster too so there will be even less need to do it at home.
I see them as sort of modern day bread machines that enabled us all to have cheap warm homemade bread at the push of a button without driving to the store. That novelty soon wore off though because the bread really isn't that great and you still have ingredients to buy, store and put in the machine.
theslimeylimey Very good. And the bread really never was very good, even though it's potentially very economical. The real winners were the manufacturers, for a while.
You have to have a clear and broad understanding of 'need' to be much good at predicting widespread human behavior.
for now, you're right. However, give it 5 more years and material costs will go down significantly.
Ross Kennedy Well that was kind of my point and you supported it. 3D printing already is and will continue to be very useful in an industrial manufacturing environment but I was talking about domestic use.
It appears to me many people think that all we need is another generation of 3D printers and five years from now we'll be able to print ourselves a new pair of Nikes at home while we watch Netflix and that simply is not going to happen.
Nobody can say for sure what technology will be available in 20 or 30 years time but don't expect miracles. 3D printing has changed very little over the past decade so keep that in mind.
Why are every comments here made 4 years ago
And why did youtube add it to my feed today
More comments were posted when 3D printing was in the news frequently. 3D printers were in sale in Sam's Club about then, too. Now, a wide variety of them are available online.
The TED Talk was delivered to your feed by alogrithms. I looked at a few tiny house videos out of curiosity, and my feed started including videos about living in cargo vans. My news feed in May 2019 started delivering the first of 20 articles about Dr. Thomas Hofeller, the guy in charge of voter suppression and voter dilution for DECADES before his death. I don't know why the alogrithm delivered the first of those, maybe because I click on articles about law.
The horizontal weakness in 3D printing can be eliminated by baking the object in an oven to slightlyy melt and more firmly fuse the materials. This was discovered by a team if high school interns at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, a federal agency. They were asked to brainstorm and experiment and solve the problem and they did!
5gey found that the time and the temperature depend on the substance used to do the printing.
"I am honouring my past. while factoring the Future" ...... thank you Sir!
I laughed out loud when he said: "...it will create endless abundance of job opportunities."
Such as selling gadgets you make. Numerous online outlets for those.
living in the future is exciting
The future of 3D printing and the full circle from hand made items, to the industrial revolution, now into the age of printing items. there are lots of new and intresting ideas coming from this, I think i will watch this very closely...
It costs a fraction of its cost 5:10
Amazing!
great ideas...
I want one!!! OOOH, OOH, I want one!
I think the best way we can use this technology is to use it to help the environment and reduction of poverty.
We could 3D print food, cars, homes, organs... pretty much anything. We will all one day own a 3D printer. 3D printing is the future
The 3D house printers would eliminate homelessness, if building standards did not force the use of 2"x 4" studs. 3D printed houses of concrete don't require studs!
Now we need 3D printers that can make working 3D printers.....
Pretty cool!
TED please fix the timing in the spanish captions, TED porfavor arregla el tiempo en los subtitulos en español :D Gracias, :D Thanks., By the way amazing video.
good! new videos:)
I find it funny that people are saying 3-d printing will make more jobs.
Watch "Humans Need Not Apply"
I find it funny that you're posting about that. If all you can do is quote someone, you're exactly the type of person who's going to be out of a job because you can't adapt. Good luck!
If (or rather when) I get my hands on a 3D printer I can print out custom computer cases & parts. This means I can now employ 5-10 guys so they can build & maintain the computers. basically, if I had a 3D printer, I could open up a computer repair shop. employing local guys. See?
Mike L. Yes, you can. The problems arise when hundreds of others in your area, want to do the same thing. You would most likely be out of business in a month or so, if you weren't able to provide anything special that others couldn't. Which in the 3D printing world, is quite difficult, considering how easy it would be to print something like that.
aDotFromTheFuture we could just patent 3D designs. would fix the "I can do anything you can"
Mike L. Then we are right where we started, with not really any improvements to the employment situation. I mean there's not an infinite number of things you can 3D print, so that so many people could make a living out of it.
If most things that we use are going to be printed, why not UBI checks?
I find this frightening
Love it!
3D printing could be the next internet or mobile phone.
The problem is, especially with a company like 3D Systems Corporation, is that now it has a lot of money to blow, it's become more like a big hobby than a money-making business - as is evident by the constant downward spiral of their stock price.There will always be something new to print from some new kind of material so there will always be more and more money spent trying to keep up with that technology than money earned actually making things. By the time they have everything to make it, or have bought up all the companies that are already making so they are the only single company in control of it all, there will be new technology, new companies that spring up to take care of that technology, and more companies that 3D Systems Corporation will then feel a need to buy to continue to control the market. Kinda like a woman with money trying to keep her shoe closet filled with the latest fashion. So the answer to "What's next in 3D printing" is, "There will always be something next" but can a company actually make money at it now that the enthusiasm by investors has been deflated - I doubt it.
3D Printing < CNC Milling
CNC can't get close to making the amount of things or the complexity of shapes that a 3D printer can.
3D printer master race!
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Cool Vid
Bacon flavored 3D-printed babanas! the future is now!
Sorry, I missed the content because I got sidetracked by the hot bear doing the talking. :)
Wow - how many years he must have trained to get to sound exactly like a slightly garbled 80s cassette tape - and completely unaided by excess technology! Ted is awesome.
Watch "print the legend" on Netflix.
Thanks Avi for suing 3D printer startups.
what sort of affects do 3d printers have on peoples skill set? is there a talk on this?? in other words how does automation affect learning.
Wow, la verdad, sigue todo medio igual, ojalá fuera más así, en 5 años más seguro vuelvo a ver este vídeo y espero que que no estemos todos muertos por el cambio climático o algo así
I wonder if his watch was made from a 3d printer
I'm not quite sure what his point is... He just babbled about different kinds of 3D printing.
chrisaviationexpert, then I expect his point is "Buy my company's 3D printers!"
A network of passionate volunteers using 3D printing to give the World a "Helping Hand." enablingthefuture.org/
desktop 3D printers usually cannot print large objects.
It was a good talk but his accent is so strong!
Americans lack well trained ears. Nationals of many countries adapt better to dialect speakers. Americans only tolerate verbal differences among singers
This will be amazing I suffer from venous stasis and venous stasis ulcers in my legs severe edema if they could design something around my regular foot pattern put my foot in it keeps the swelling down it would be absolutely amazing if anybody knows if or where im will to be a tester message me please
Best of luck, but you need to choose another avenue of communication. Write emails to anyone you think could help, and keep writing them. Someone out there actually wants to help you, and actually needs you to help them get their solution out: find them, and waste no time doing so.
Gareth Field believe me I have and do I have 3 different vascular surgeons and I've seen many over the past four years there is custom boots and slippers and a lot of other things but my situation is quite a typical and I've yet to find anybody that is doing 3d measured footwear near me. Thank you so much for your reply
You need to work on your google search skills. Try contacting these people.
enablingthefuture.org/
***** I didn't say I need a prosthetic limb I said I needed help with edema in venous stasis I looked at that website in has to do with prosthetics for children
***** thanks for the sarcastic reply but you were way off
its the first step to replicators from star trek
Every positieve come some netagave hopefully the first out ways the second.I wonder can grafeen be 3d printed
those eye wear was laughable. other than that.
cool
I'm sure if you put them on you wouldn't care so much about your fear of what everyone thinks of you, perhaps for just a minute.
Pippy Pappy but if i dont enjoy them why should i wear them. yeah sure the enjoyment factor is connected to , "i wonder if people will think im cool or not with wearing this or not" ... but thats like 35% of my decision of if i like them or not. to me they look to bulky . its cool that we can print stuff. but just because we can , that doesnt mean that we should. in my humble opinion, that eye wear looks so ugly and hhideous. and it would only make my ugly fugly face even uglier and more fuglier.
Yeah they looked pretty goofy, but with 3D printing you could make any design you wanted.
the eye wear in your profile pic is quite hilarious too... xD
Allen Dupras lol its actually ear wear hahahaha :p lulz. im such a hypocrite.
Invest now!!!
Short it now
Beware of the capitalistic influences that can undermine ethical 3D printed food
may I 3D print a girlfriend? o'_'o
So if we have all the technology needed to advance as a civilization, whos keeping us back?
religion.. it's always religion
Duke Baatarkhuyag I dont know , religion has little to do in the global decision making.
Maybe its the greatest corporations and their fear of losing profit.
rurounisld Are you kidding? Religion has little to do in global decision making?????????? Open a newspaper once in a while.
rurounisld yeah that too. There's a reason we haven't been able to advance in renewable energy with all these oil, gas and coal giants.
Duke Baatarkhuyag I agree. The solar or electric car (no sure which one ) project was delayed back in the 90s because of the major petrol companies.
But cars are a minor issue in comparison with renewable energy in toral.
lol. this video has as many likes as it does views...and then it has 14 dislikes....how? lol
Oh my God another Holocaust reference. If I had a dime for every time I heard one I would have enough to buy a 3D printer by now.
I am certain that you have SOMETHING that you mention that others would prefer not to hear about as often as you talk about it. Do you know what that is?
Sooo what happens when people can print weapons and guns in their home??
apparently there's plans to make 3d printing '100 times faster'. meaning anyone capable of aquiring one of these things will be able to make most anything in a few minutes to an hour. (pieces and the like) . I do not consider this a good development. I'm only glad there still appear to be materials they can't manage to use...yet.
Thumbs down for initial comments.
Why would you want to eat fake food..?
Can I print a girlfriend?
haha good one
Why bother? She'll just make you to print her shoes.
Well they are experimenting with 3D printing organs, and eventually whole human bodies. So in the future, yes you could 3D print yourself a girlfriend... Welcome to the future
VerCreV
You may use TPE material filament to print one of those TPE dolls.
Such a waste, just print the vagina.
lets make weapons whit this 3d printers :D
They already do :)
But to be honest, it's for good. No government will be able to oppress their citizens, just 3D print a gun, and defend your constitutional rights. Today all criminals have guns, government has guns, the only people who are unarmed are law abiding citizens, who frequently become the victims of groups listed earlier. Maybe advanced affordable 3D printers will finally bring equality to this place?
Like everything else it will not be used to design and build cheap housing but to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
He has barely eye contact with the audience.
LOL 3d printing + Ai, Wooooo
Omg, people are stupid if they will beleve 3d printing will bring more jobs !
I take it you don't work in technology. There have been plenty of jobs created with 3D printing: prototyping, prosthetics, robotics, space R&D.
Awesome...this will free so much time while also allowing for people to specialise in their vocations, rather than chaining themselves to an unrewarding career with no prospects.
It'll need a radical rethink of the social and economic model, but that should have been clearly seen as domestic staff positions became rarer at the turn of the last century; and seriously planned for as further industries streamlined their employees.
The fault is not the technology; it is socioeconomic stubbornness on the part of political and corporate thinking. They try to disempower their populations to assure compliance and stability based on historical policies denying access to information. Those times are gone with the advent of the communications age, and this has to be recognised and adapted to most by the people who will lose what they value the most: control of others and absurdly elevated access to resources beyond the reach of the general population.
Wealth should no longer equal control for the simple fact that a large proportion of those in that cosy position have little understanding or connection with the realities faced by the majority they fear gaining independence.
A simple example is poverty itself.
We tend to feel sorry for third world starvation and attrocities, while complaining about 'relative' poverty as though it were of the same scale.
Not being capable of budgeting on the lowest support first world cultures provide for their worst off is light years away from the realities of real poverty. Yet it is continually used to justify retaining the status quo, or complain about lack of 'necessities' in the manner of spoilt children.
Conclusion:
People need to get off their fat comfortable asses and start thinking for themselves and creating their world instead of wailing for the next teat to be provided for them to suckle off.
This is AWESOME...now bugga off and think about how you can either work with it, or how you can preserve the traditional. Preserving the traditional is the most lucrative of the lot, because there will be few who do.
If you doubt that, ask your 'local' blacksmith how many Porsches they could afford rather than screaming about how everyone should be a blacksmith so that the paltry income can afford the alcohol to drown the woes of a dead end career where noone wants a soddin' horseshoe.
...or move to the third world where they actually want a horseshoe made by a specialist and carry on moaning...at least you'll have a reason to complain about lack of jobs there; they are deliberately disempowered to ensure they CAN'T have opportunities like this...it ensures the leaderships get fat off their suffering!
Jeremy Bagnol I take it you dont take what he is saying ^^ 100 years ago there was, lets say, 1000 shomakers making 1000 shoes every day. Today 1 designer desings pair of shoes which is made in 1000 copies by 10 people in manufactory every day. So, do we have more or less jobs needed to create the same amount of product?
Yup, did :)
The world is speeding up. You tend to notice these things. In my youth, careers for life was still the ideal.
But a sea change was in the air, and many bought into it, becoming hippie 'bums' a lot of the time; though a lot were surprisingly entrepreneurial for their day. Fast forward to the eighties and we had huge riots about pit closures here (which was understandable because it was a pretty well rewarded career choice with little immediately on offer to the same standard).
Today we see unemployment rising again; and with it opportunities.
Many like the comfort of familiar skills used in familiar settings; and for them there is the chance to make that work.
But to expect it to be provided on tap is self defeatist. It passes responsibility to others.
We bred out a lot of independence in order to allow society to function securely, because you don't want someone in charge without a clue what to do, snd surrounded by everyone else wanting to be in charge too. That is a recipe for disaster.
Today, we can reclaim independence, while maintaining social stability. People are ready to achieve that, and have the resources and access to learning to ensure they understand the reason of social structure and the opportunity scientific and philosophical advances have provided.
I'm happily starting a business myself because I'm educated and self motivated in a field I have some experience in. I reckon it's going to be a darn sight more satisfying doing work my way instead of having some fat dude with a bank balance and a desire to add more zeros to it as their sole qualification for employing me. I feel this is the future for us all.
There are those who are talented and comfortable with the rules of another...indeed many whose bank balances are accompanied by genuine understanding of their market and the ins and outs of their business. But they are quite rare, unfortunately.
Possibly his grandfather would be one of them in these times, and make shoes. But as opportunities have broadened, I'd not even try to guess.
Point I'm making is embrace the new, rather than cling to the old as it drags you to the depths.
...I got all passionate and started lecturing rather than putting in the last paragraph as my post...my bad.
I'll shut up now ;)
Fuck jobs.
Your bright beautiful future will not happen if we fail to mitigate global warming
Relax, we will find ways how to get rid of greenhouse gases, it's a matter of time.
funky3ddy Maybe our tech geniuses will discover the secrets of faster-than-light star trek warp speed interstellar space travel and teleportation, and that genesis terraforming thing they had in the 2nd trek movie. Maybe these will all be invented and ready to go within five minutes from now, but I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. Except we may have to learn to live with no food and no water when global warming runs out of control, so let's cross our fingers. Because human extinction is less bad than paying a bit more for gassing up the car.
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3D printing is cool and all, but id rather have neuro-surgical advances so I don't have to wait for ridiculous-looking frickin moon-suits just to walk & do it on my own. Don't get me wrong, good for her, but not everyone wants that. She might not mind the staring, but it might be much for others
are you talking about our current clothes and devices?because they sure would look like ridiculous moon-suits and gadgets if you went a couple decades back in time.
3D printing offers neuro-surgical advances. How? well when you can print anything (and i mean anything; plastic, wood, metals, and even organic material) every industry has something to gain. especially the medical field.
so it helps with women's troubles
in my opinion 3d printing is no deal until it becomes fully reciclable. if not, it is still a mega plastic garbage factory.
There are already recyclable 3d printing materials, like recyclable plastic or some sort of paper/wood, it's up to you or the companies what materials you use for printing.
wtf even is this? explains nothing about 3d printing at all
Ken Muck It's like expecting someone who is explaining an app to tell you what a smartphone is.
Google 3D printing and learn what it is.
stealing others invention
Waste of time
Your ignorance is over the roof.
I have a friend who 3D prints parts for printers that he makes and sells. I doubt you would consider making money " a waste of time "
Don't feed the trolls
ParaditeRs i meant ,that he practically didnt say anything new .
Horrible dialect! Sorry to say...