The Thinker, the Maker, and the Machine: Revisiting 3D Printing Eleven Years Later
One of the perils of longitudinal blogging is that the internet preserves my earlier certainty long after my thinking has evolved. I have learned over time to stop being so certain about things. Ideas written in response to a particular moment remain sitting in this blog exactly where I left them, waiting to be rediscovered without the benefit of everything I learned afterward. If I am fortunate, I rediscover them myself before someone else does. Ahem. I recently revisited a post I wrote in March 2015 titled “On 3D printing technologies and The Nature of Gothic .” Because I am now helping to build an occupational therapy program where digital fabrication is one of its defining capabilities, there is a reasonable possibility that one of my students will eventually find it too. I figured I had better clean up the mess on aisle three before a student or collaborator asks why the person promoting Measure. Design. Make. once dismissed 3D printing as a fad. The original post isn't enti...