off introduction:

In an interview, Neil Gershenfeld outlined his expectation of the impact of digital fabrication:

“What is work? For the average person […] you leave home to go to a place youd rather not be, doing a repetitive operation youd rather not do, making something designed by somebody you dont know for somebody youll never see, to get money to then go home and buy something. But what if you could skip that and just make the thing?” (Gershenfield 2015)

Currently, it is not clear how mature and developed this new technology really is, and the bandwidth of things that can be produced in the near future in this way is still open to debate.