“As potentially game-changing as the steam engine or telegraph, 3D printing could herald a new industrial revolution. The prospect of printers turning out any object you want at the click of a button may seem like the stuff of science fiction. But 3D printing is already here, is developing fast, and looks set to leap from the labs and niche industries onto the wider market. ‘There are still limits imposed by the technology available today,’ said Olivier Olmo, operational director of Switzerland’s EPFL research institution. ‘But I’m certain that within 10 or 20 years, we’ll have a kind of revolution in terms of the technology being available to everyone.’”
