> the 3D printing at home fad has already crested and is fading away, like 3D televisions I too am skeptical of 3d printing but I don’t think you can write it

> the 3D printing at home fad has already crested and is fading away, like 3D televisions I too am skeptical of 3d printing but I don’t think you can write it off just yet. It may be true that we’re seeing the crest of the 3d dot matrix thing. But if you include all “arbitrarily programmable assembly robots” then I think we’re just in the prelude. The data structure for 3d printing is the “thingiverse” and I don’t think we’ve seen the end of that yet. I can imagine for example a small kitchen robot with reservoirs for some staple foods, and an app where you browse dishes that can be cooked for you. Or write your own. I would consider that 3d printing. Similarly 3d TV is alive and well in mobile VR. And it will see huge growth this year with the advent of $200 high quality stand-alone headsets. You can argue these things are “not the same” but the vision is the same, only the form factor is different.