Marketers were skilled at using the new emerging media (the mass-market newspapers that had been enabled by thedevelopmentof cheap printing technologies in the 1890s) to sell, but not particularly interested in the full-spectrum risk-taking required of true entrepreneurs.
Thedevelopmentof 3D printing machines is racing ahead and they will be down-scaled for home use, so that consumers can instantly create thousands of objects at the touch of a button.
In order to spur thedevelopmentof innovation and entrepreneurship in desktop fabrication and 3D printing, the Kauffman Foundation, Maker Education Initiative and Inventables launched the Desktop Fabrication Competition on the iStart platform last summer.
Still, it's hard not to get excited about the direction such a device signals both in thedevelopmentof an ecosystem for the company and for the future of home 3D printing in general.