Control the Eggs in Your Basket
By: Zack Stu
Tags: 3D Printing, Elon Musk, Manufacturing, Technology, Revolution

“It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket, as long as you control what happens to that basket.”

Image via @ElonMuskNewsOrg on Twitter

We humans are the creators of our destiny.

We say we are playing God, when dabbling with the toys of the new era (gene splicing, human-animal hybrids, artificial intelligence, etc.), yet, maybe we have always been the gods of our own universe.

We have this knack for transforming the world around us into magnificently complex structures and systems of depth and history that lay the foundation for the creation of ever increasingly revolutionary timestamps of human history.

We are now in the midst of the most powerful and exponential growth of human potential to connect, create, and control the vast universe around us.

With the likes of Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and Jeff Bezos getting us to the frontier of this vast landscape of possibilities — the journey through this transformative time period has only just begun. I am eager to be a part of it.

America arguably had it’s superpower peak at the end of the cold war. Sparked off reminiscent fumes of WWII manufacturing, and fueled by the intense cold war Arms Race, the US Military Industrial Complex (MIC) was in its prime. Presently, of course the MIC is still inside of at least 100 different countries and arguably still the most powerful earthly political entity ever to exist, and is making technological advances with plans decades in the future. Decades in the technological era are analogous to centuries, if not millennia, in the industrial era. So, we don’t have decades to wait for the MIC to release the technologies necessary to revive american cities through natural, capitalist job creation. This is why the private sector is so important, and especially critical in our era. I believe the private sector, specifically manufacturing, is greatly lagging behind. Americas infrastructure has been slowly crumbling for years with no clear sign of improvement. It is my understanding that the aging manufacturing industry is the cause of this inevitable decline. 3D printing is the solution.

I am eager to transform the manufacturing industry with thorough exposure of the potential this relatively new technology has on revolutionizing the world we live in.

3D printing is in all respects better than injection molding, the current state of the art method of mass assembly lines and most production companies. The only lacking feature is of course, speed. 3D printing is extremely slow relative to injection molding, but its versatility of creating very complex shapes of various materials that an injection molder lacks, is the reason we must focus our attention on the process that will soon dictate many factors influencing our existence here on earth.

A chemist by the name Joseph DeSimone displayed his magnificent 3D printer in the TED2015 conferences. Through novel ingenuity, he and his team made a device that was much faster than the current 3D printers available. Still, it is much slower than injection molding. The point remains — this invention was at least four years ago. A group of Italian inventors created Delta WASP 20×40 Turbo 2, a 3D printer that more than rivals Mr. DeSimone’s creation, and the devices are only getting faster.

It is only a matter of time at this point. 3D printers will overpower the traditional manufacturing industry as the superior technology in due time. Because of this awareness, I am exited to focus my extra energy delving into various 3D molding projects and partake in this industrial shift.

I humbly ask for donations to my GoFundMe account in my pursuit of purchasing a 3D printer. I plan of firstly focusing on using it for hobbyist projects, but plan to extrapolate to more necessary creations as my skill and market of interested customers increases. Simply put, I have a burning urge to focus my attention on the vast potential 3D printing can have on industry around the world, standard of living in various countries, and ultimately our progress as a species. Thanks for reading!

Here is the link! I appreciate all efforts toward my cause.

https://www.gofundme.com/control-the-eggs-in-your-basket&rcid=r01-155851724184-0492db768e314670&pc=ot_co_campmgmt_w