
"Fabricated" unveils how 3D printing is revolutionizing manufacturing, healthcare, and beyond. This award-winning guide by Columbia professor Hod Lipson explores a technology that lets you print everything from organs to food. What everyday object will you download and print tomorrow?
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Imagine waking up to the aroma of freshly baked muffins-not from a traditional oven, but from your kitchen food printer using recipes from famous artisan bakers. Outside your window, a computer-guided crane extrudes cement in organic patterns impossible with traditional construction. This isn't science fiction-it's the world being shaped by 3D printing technology. While the 20th century transformed information into digital form-books, music, photographs all became bits and bytes-the 21st century is reversing this flow. Digital bits are becoming physical atoms through 3D printing, a transformation already evident in aerospace, medicine, and beyond. 3D printing, technically called "additive manufacturing," builds objects layer by layer following computer instructions. Unlike traditional manufacturing that cuts away material or uses molds, 3D printers construct objects from the ground up. This revolutionary approach enables complex geometries, hollow interiors, and intricate lattice structures previously impossible or prohibitively expensive. The technology works by interpreting digital design files and bringing virtual creativity into physical reality-essentially functioning as ultimate "fax machines" for physical objects. The convergence of digital and physical is happening in phases: first control over shape, then composition of materials, and finally control over behavior. We're currently mastering shape, beginning to explore composition through multi-material printing, and just glimpsing the possibilities of programmable behavior. Eventually, we'll print complete active systems-working phones, smart fabrics, and robots that emerge fully-functional from the printer.
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