Ten years seems fast, but I foresee a revolution in local micro manufacture that is a mashup of 3d printing as we know it and local assembly of off the shelf pa

Ten years seems fast, but I foresee a revolution in local micro manufacture that is a mashup of 3d printing as we know it and local assembly of off the shelf parts. This will lead to a revolution of generic complex product availability that ignores patents and trademarks. An exoskeleton may not be the first type of product to be ordered and assembled from a few blocks away. The amount of QA for safety would need to be high. However, if the price of such things is 1/10 or even 1/20th that of the branded, official version people will continue to turn to hyperlocal, small-run manufacture for even the most safety-critical products.