{"id":13456,"date":"2015-02-11T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T23:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13456"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:10:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:10:05","slug":"off-world-3-d-printing-is-how-humans-will-colonize-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/off-world-3-d-printing-is-how-humans-will-colonize-space","title":{"rendered":"Off-World 3-D Printing Is How Humans Will Colonize Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"author\">By <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/user\/16813\" rel=\"author\">Steven Kotler<\/a><\/span> \u2014 Newsweek<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" dir=\"ltr\">The impact that 3-D printing is having on our world is impossible to ignore. It\u2019s not new technology, but its 30-year history has been characterized by deceptively slow growth \u2014until now. 3-D printing has recently emerged as a force poised to disrupt a significant portion of the $10 trillion global manufacturing industry.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Already, the printing of standard consumer products\u2014bowls, plates, smartphone cases, bottle openers, jewelry and purses (made from mesh)\u2014has gone from a hobby to a nascent industry. Dozens of websites now sell goods made with 3-D printers, and retailers are starting to get in on the action.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/world-3-d-printing-how-humans-will-colonize-space-304073\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Steven Kotler \u2014 Newsweek The impact that 3-D printing is having on our world is impossible to ignore. It\u2019s not new technology, but its 30-year history has been characterized by deceptively slow growth \u2014until now. 3-D printing has recently emerged as a force poised to disrupt a significant portion of the $10 trillion global [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,8,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-space","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56429,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456\/revisions\/56429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}