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3-D printers can now make jewelry, parts for military jets, guns, and now I read that somewhere in Europe they are using a 2-D printer to build a house! What can't a 3-D printer do? As far a jewelry goes I have done some jewelry making and it is a diffecult art to learn because there is so much to it. One has to know how to use waxes, clay(sometimes), metal and more and each thing they use has a language all to itself that must be learned. So it seems that 3-D printers will steal away the masters of the trade. Why buy from a master tradesman when you can get something perfect from a 3-D printer and get it done quickly. So no more master violin makers, sculptors, and everything else. Or am I missing something when I think that 3-D printers will do everything and better than human hands?
Good BBQ. They'll never be able to do really good BBQ.
Aye! That, and waiting on tables. Looks like another type of job might be in the sights of automation. Might be a good idea to become proficient at 3D printing, which might be a decent-paying job...until it, too, gets fully computerized.
3-D printers can now make jewelry, parts for military jets, guns, and now I read that somewhere in Europe they are using a 2-D printer to build a house! What can't a 3-D printer do? As far a jewelry goes I have done some jewelry making and it is a diffecult art to learn because there is so much to it. One has to know how to use waxes, clay(sometimes), metal and more and each thing they use has a language all to itself that must be learned. So it seems that 3-D printers will steal away the masters of the trade. Why buy from a master tradesman when you can get something perfect from a 3-D printer and get it done quickly. So no more master violin makers, sculptors, and everything else. Or am I missing something when I think that 3-D printers will do everything and better than human hands?
You have just described technological unemployment.
There was a segment on CNN about this that you should want.
A human has to create the design the 3d printers use.. I know most people have been fed the 'Artificial Intelligence' kool-aid by the media/pundits and press-release repeaters for decades, as of yet there is no such thing and the people working on it will readily admit that with our current technology true A.I. is not possible; only rule based systems that attempt to approximate 'intelligence' in specific areas.
Nobody really wants A.I. anyway it would likely come with a lot of baggage, unpredictability is not what anyone wants from a tool.
We will all be long dead before a 3-D printer can create a decent violin, an entire jet, or a complete human organ. They are an interesting and promising technology for sure, but they have been greatly over-hyped in my opinion. All of I've seen come out of them are some crude plastic parts/models and some basic organic tissue.
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