Via Forbes:
Much as we now take for granted the “print” button on our computer, and the desktop laser printer or ink jet that allows pixel prefect graphic rendering, he predicts a near future when our home computers will have a “Make” button. That button will allow you to print to your 3D printer, or send a 3D file to be created for you at a long print shop or in mass quantity in software enabled factory. hris Anderson's New 'Maker' Vision - Forbes
A book worth considering, but basic Internet searching will likely yield the same information for free. As with The Long Tail, when Chris Anderson writes about a trend, it's already well underway, and you're about to miss it. If someone can figure out cost-effective supply chain interconnections between independent fabricators, this can rewrite how we manufacture things.
