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3D Printing Heralds the Next ‘Industrial’ Revolution

Many who gush about 3D printers say they herald the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’. Up until now, 3D printers – which allow you to create physical objects out of designs on a computer – were in the domain of R&D departments at industrial giants. They were expensive an unwieldy.

That has changed and this technology is going mainstream, allowing garage inventors to create ground-breaking products and services at will.

People are able to invent things, experiment and go to market with products faster than at any time in our history.

Innovations are booming, the technology is driving advances in new materials and applications including: graphene, cartilage, bones, hearts, ears, noses and more almost daily.

Others, are printing houses, buildings, vehicles, aircraft, clothing, jewelry, prosthetics and on and on. . .

The 3D Printing Revolution is Just Beginning

There Are Fantastic Opportunities Now

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Gravity-defying 3D Printer to Print Bridge Over Water in Amsterdam

Michelle Starr CNET

“I strongly believe in the future of digital production and local production, in ‘the new craft’,” bridge Designer Joris Laarman said.

“This bridge will show how 3D printing finally enters the world of large-scale, functional objects and sustainable materials while allowing unprecedented freedom of form. The symbolism of the bridge is a beautiful metaphor to connect the technology of the future with the old city, in a way that brings out the best of both worlds.” Full Story..

Related: “3D Printing is About to Change the World Forever”

by Rick Smith, Forbes Full Story..

New Approaches are Needed to Address a Widening Functional Gap Causing Unknown Levels of Distress and Depression for our Families & Communities.

Rapidly Changing Technologies and a Fumbling Bureaucracy are a Recipe for Our Failure.

To Avoid a Looming Crisis, We Have to Quickly Look to One Another to Develop Local Capacity.

R3 Projects address the needs of Technologically Displaced People and the Functional Crisis that lies before us. They prepare people for New Opportunities by Building Local Capacity to Accelerate Positive Change.

Focusing on the Challenges of Structural and Functional Obsolescence, Addressing Key Issues Directly within the Community itself.

Pioneering at Local Levels via Social Enterprise Startups.

R3 Projects Leverage Disruptive Technologies to Support Local Advancement through Bottom-up Empowerment, Creating Value and Well-being Simultaneously.

WHY?

Here’s 8 Reasons:

1. Crowdfunding & Grassroots Support— Answers the Need for Speed

2. It ‘s an Explosive Growth Market, with Unprecedented Versatility

3. Rising Value Across Vast New Markets, Driving Competition, Research and Innovation

4. Distributes Productivity and Inspiration Locally— Generating New Jobs, New Businesses, in New Fields

5. Fills the Functional Gap with ‘Gold’— New Knowledge & Experience

6. 3DP Rapid Prototyping is a Key to More High Impact Projects and Businesses. As the Speed of Technology Continues to Advance, so Must the Capabilities to Produce and Validate Prototypes.

7. The Ability to Produce a Product or Service is much more Dynamic today— and Markets React Faster.

8. Reduced Development Time/Cost provide a crucial Edge entering New Markets, and Distributed Manufacturing at Local 3D Printing Hubs Further Cuts Time, Shipping Costs— and Carbon Footprints.

3D PrEP, a Catalyst and Dynamic Model for Startup Innovation, Flexible Collaboration, Concept Validation, Open Knowledge Sharing & Risk Mitigation.

According to independent research company Canalys, the size of the global 3D Printing market, is predicted to reach $ 16.2 Billion by 2018.

Its estimates show the sector stood at $3.8 Billion in 2014, up from $2.5 billion globally in 2013. And in 5 years the company believes the market will grow by over 500%.

Gartner Research is Forecasting a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 106.6% in Worldwide Shipments of 3D Printers through 2018, and Revenue Growth of 87.7% for the Forecast Period.

Risks & Challenges

In the short-term, using local resources may seem to pose more risks and challenges because many of us have become rooted or adjusted to patterns of distraction, denial and dysfunction. There are some areas that are exceptional, though generally these challenges are clearly becoming more prevalent across the nation.

If we take a moment for reflection, we must acknowledge the 20th century systems don’t have the agility to address the deteriorating conditions and declining attitudes around us.

This is OUR Challenge

WE Can and Must Pull Participants Together, Sharing our Abilities and Energies in Projects for the Greatest Benefit – Capacity Building

Building adaptive 21st Century lifestyle businesses that drive change for good- Families and Communities Succeed.

Sharing- Time Banking, Collaboration- pooling our abilities to identify and overcome the challenges ahead.

Participation sparks Social Innovation, New Knowledge and Insight of potential Opportunities and Challenges.

Addressing the Disruption and Improving our Position to Benefit by Filling in the Functional Gaps of Rampant Change.

Open Source Access of the Projects allows critical information for strategic planning and forecasting decisions

Empower !!

Please GET the WORD OUT and Make Some NOISE about OUR Campaign.

Interact with Us, Strengthen Our Mutual Cause from Where You Are

Become a Unique and Valuable Resource, a Change Agent for a Better World

Help Families & Communities Harness Rapid Change

Small businesses are failing at a higher rate than at any time in history. The state of entrepreneurship in the United States is, sadly, weaker than ever.

Business incubators are serving a wonderful purpose for college educated entrepreneurs. There are millions more who are not satisfied working their current jobs or many others unable to afford rising college debts and are left disillusioned and lost.

Shared and Flexible Networks for Validating Emerging Technologies that Advance Lifestyles and Communities.

Cloud Allows Us to Combine Competencies into New Service Offerings, and Mobile is Forcing Companies to be Less and Less Monolithic and to Take Many Small Steps Much More Frequently to Change How They Function.

Globalism, Cloud, and Mobile Make it Imperative to Seek out and Develop Participant Skills to Give a New and Persistent EDGE.

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ROBERT REICH:

THE POLITICAL ROOTS OF WIDENING INEQUALITY

Ultimately, the trend toward widening inequality in America, as elsewhere, can be reversed only if the VAST MAJORITY, WHOSE INCOMES HAVE STAGNATED AND WHOSE WEALTH HAS FAILED TO INCREASE, JOIN TOGETHER to DEMAND FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE.

The MOST IMPORTANT POLITICAL COMPETITION Over the Next Decades WILL NOT BE BETWEEN the RIGHT and LEFT, Or Between REPUBLICANS and DEMOCRATS . .

"IT WILL BE BETWEEN A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WHO HAVE BEEN LOSING GROUND, AND AN ECONOMIC ELITE THAT REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE OR RESPOND TO IT'S GROWING DISTRESS."

IT’S HAPPENING NOW

“The necessity to harness the potential of quickly advancing new technologies creates a near-constant mandate for innovation in order to stay relevant. Survival is not guaranteed in a world when all is up for reinvention.

There’s no question we’re in a new technological age but how many of us actually understand the vast potential that lies within this new normal?

The biggest impacts of technology on our daily lives is still ahead of us, but already we’re beginning to imagine and navigate how global economies, enterprise businesses and even the human race will adapt to ensure we all thrive.

From a UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME, to understanding the fundamentals of WORKPLACE AUTOMATION and our increasing ability to define the physical future,

THERE’S NO QUESTION THAT DISRUPTION IS HERE.”

– The GIGAOM Change Team

The Next Economy By Andy Stern and Lee Kravitz

Advances in technology are creating the next economy and enabling us to make things/do things/connect with others in smarter, cheaper, faster, more effective ways.

But the price of this progress has been a decoupling of the engine of prosperity from jobs that have been the means by which people have ascended to (and stayed in) the middle class.

Andy Stern, the former president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) spent four years traveling the country and asking economists, futurists, labor leaders, CEOs, investment bankers, entrepreneurs, and political leaders to help picture the U.S. economy 25 to 30 years from now.

He vividly reports on people who are analyzing and creating this new economy.

Through these stories, we come to a stark and deeper understanding of THE TOLL TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS WILL CONTINUE TO TAKE ON JOBS AND INCOME AND ITS INEVITABLE EFFECT ON TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.

But There is HOPE for our ECONOMY and FUTURE. The Foundation of ECONOMIC PROSPERITY for ALL AMERICANS, Stern believes, is a UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME.

Stern has been a game changer throughout his career, and his next goal is to create a movement that will force the political establishment to take action against something that many on both the right and the left believe is inevitable.

STERN’S PLAN IS BOLD, IDEALISTIC, and CHALLENGING- and IT’S TIME ..

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM:

CAPITALISM NEEDS URGENT REFORM

REFORMING the very nature of CAPITALISM will be needed to COMBAT THE GROWING APPEAL of POPULIST POLITICAL MOVEMENTS around the WORLD.

Capitalism as we know it needs to be reformed. The GROWING DISCONTENT at the ideology that has created so much wealth and progress on the one hand, and yet so much INEQUALITY and INSTABILITY on the other hand, is causing INCREASINGLY frequent SOCIAL DISRUPTIONS ACROSS the WORLD.

“IT IS NO COINCIDENCE THAT CHALLENGES TO SOCIAL COHESION AND POLICYMAKERS' LEGITIMACY ARE COINCIDING WITH A HIGHLY DISRUPTIVE PHASE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE."

STOP TECHNOLOGY THREAT

Hawking said that technology must be controlled in order to safeguard the future of humanity and believes that a ‘world government’ could be the only way to combat the threat, though warned that that could lead to a global ‘tyranny’.

‘Since civilisation began, aggression has been useful inasmuch as it has definite survival advantages, It is hard-wired into our genes by Darwinian evolution.'

‘Now, however, technology has advanced at such a pace that this aggression may destroy us all by nuclear or biological war. We need to control this inherited instinct by our logic and reason.’

But he added that he believed the ‘THE HUMAN RACE WILL RISE TO MEET THESE CHALLENGES’. He said that the human race must ‘retrain’ for a new world where robots have replaced many everyday jobs.

‘Together, they are a reminder that we are at the most dangerous moment in the development of humanity. We now have the technology to destroy the planet on which we live, but have not yet developed the ability to escape it.’

When asked how the world will end, Hawking said that increasingly, most of the threats humanity faces come from progress in technology.

‘WE ARE NOT GOING TO STOP MAKING PROGRESS, OR REVERSE IT, SO WE MUST RECOGNISE THE DANGERS AND CONTROL THEM.'

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3D Printing Experience Project

3D Printing Heralds the Next ‘Industrial’ Revolution

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Gravity-defying 3D Printer to Print Bridge Over Water in Amsterdam

Related: “3D Printing is About to Change the World Forever”

Gartner Research is Forecasting a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 106.6% in Worldwide Shipments of 3D Printers through 2018, and Revenue Growth of 87.7% for the Forecast Period.

Risks & Challenges