THE FUTURE OF ‘FAB LAB’ FABRICATION

https://www.wired.com/story/the-future-of-fab-lab-fabrication/

“Now there’s Lass’ law—the prediction that the number of fab labs, or such tools, will double roughly every year and a half. Why would this be happening? It’s part inspiration (people hear about the labs and want their own) and, as with Moore’s law, technical progress: The machinery has gotten cheaper and more digitized.

If Lass’ law continues, custom fabrication will explode. In roughly a decade we will have a million fab labs. In 30 years it will be a trillion; they will be as omnipresent as the electronic devices currently scattered around your home.

Yowza. Let’s suspend disbelief and assume this actually happens. How would it change life?”

Stephen