{"id":25480,"date":"2016-05-07T20:01:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T03:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/when-3d-printing-gets-into-the-wrong-hands"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:00:28","slug":"when-3d-printing-gets-into-the-wrong-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/when-3d-printing-gets-into-the-wrong-hands","title":{"rendered":"When 3D Printing Gets Into The Wrong Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-3d-printing-gets-into-the-wrong-hands.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t tell Forbes; but I believe it is too late given that 3D Printing has already been available to be purchased for some time now. In 2012, for $15K or even $32K you could get a 3D Printer why several jewelry houses had them to mass produce custom jewelry, etc. based on your online order request.<\/p>\n<p>I am just amazing that we haven\u2019t seen mass production of drugs, and other weapons and black market items developed by Cartels, and other criminals.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It\u2019s only a matter of time until 3D printing begins to revolutionize how things are made \u2014 the technology, for example, is already being used to produce airplane parts and medical devices. The 3D printing market is projected to jump from $1.6 billion in 2015 to $13.4 billion 2018, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/newsroom\/id\/2887417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">per research firm Gartner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-3d-printing-gets-into-the-wrong-hands.jpg\" alt=\"3Dprinting\" data-height=\"492\" data-width=\"740\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next industrial revolution will be 3D printing,\u201d said Cynthia Slubowski, vice president and head of manufacturing and wholesale trade distribution at Zurich North America. \u201cBut what\u2019s really interesting is not so much the 3D printer, but the materials they\u2019re using to print these different products, like bio-medicines. That\u2019s where we\u2019re seeing huge advances. But with those types of materials comes risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zurich\/2016\/05\/06\/when-3d-printing-gets-into-the-wrong-hands\/#f40dcb124a67\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zurich\/2016\/05\/06\/when-3d-printi...0dcb124a67<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t tell Forbes; but I believe it is too late given that 3D Printing has already been available to be purchased for some time now. In 2012, for $15K or even $32K you could get a 3D Printer why several jewelry houses had them to mass produce custom jewelry, etc. based on your online order [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,15,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-habitats","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25480","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67550,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25480\/revisions\/67550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}