{"id":14317,"date":"2012-12-29T12:35:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2012\/12\/29\/14317.html"},"modified":"2012-12-29T12:35:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T20:35:10","slug":"3d-printing-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2012\/12\/29\/3d-printing-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"3D printing explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Seems like everyone's talking about 3D printing lately. For the first time, I'm actually tempted to buy a 3D printer, though I don't think the technology is quite where I would want it to be yet.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of recent links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/list\/injured-bald-eagle-gets-new-3-d-printed-beak\/\">3D printed beak for an injured eagle<\/a><\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2012\/12\/20\/3d-printed-christmas-cookies\/\">3D printed cookies<\/a><\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.architizer.com\/en_us\/blog\/dyn\/56731\/3-d-printing-food-cart\/#.UNmB6W_BHEl\">3D printed chocolate<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shapeways.com\">Shapeways<\/a> lets people sell all sorts of awesome 3D-printed stuff, including a bunch of cool art and toys. You can even buy downloadable plans for stuff to print at home.<\/p>\n<p>But as 3D printers get better, they'll also enable other uses. In particular, it's now possible to use one to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/smartnews\/2012\/12\/open-for-business-the-3d-printed-gun-store\/\">print the lower receiver of a gun<\/a>. That's not (yet) an entire gun, and so far the printed receiver doesn't work all that well. But 3D printers are getting better fast. Ten years from now, I suspect it will be very easy for people to print most of the important parts of a working gun at home.<\/p>\n<p>Here's where I, as the blogger writing about this, am supposed to make a big philosophical statement, or present a plan for how to stop something like this from happening, or something. But I don't have any statements or plans about this. I think 3D printing is going to change the world in a variety of ways, big and small, and I think the ability to print weapons at home is one of those ways. I find the prospect scary, but I think it's inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>So while we're pointing to nifty food and gadgets and awesome makers, I wanted to pause to note that, as Gibson told us thirty years ago, the street finds its own uses for technology.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like everyone&#8217;s talking about 3D printing lately. For the first time, I&#8217;m actually tempted to buy a 3D printer,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}