3D PRINTING PAUL MCCARTNEY

All music fans and perhaps almost all people living on our planet have heard of Paul McCartney, the famous Beatles' member who is also a very keen technological enthusiast and doesn't stop surprising us with his ideas and projects.

During the making of the new video called "Hope For The Future", Mr. McCartney has unveiled a 3D printed figurine of himself in full-length. You can imagine how excited his fans were to see their idol so alive in a model he had made himself. And, of course, this presence of a figurine made by 3D printing in connection with the video's title "Hope For The Future" gives us an idea what this hope is inspired by and at least one of the inspiring things for our future is technology and 3D printing as a developing field in high-tech.

Perhaps the best thing that happened after the figurine was displayed was that Sir Paul also offered the file with high resolution scan of his body on his website for all his fans to print it out and own a personal McCartney that's as closest to the real person as possible.

A press statement on the figurine explains that one of the technologies we've been excited in recent years is 3D printing and that some people deservedly refer it as the Third Industrial Revolution. The project for the 3D printed figurine is not accidental and has deep reasons. The team behind the video and the figurine believe that in the coming years we will all begin to see 3D printed objects appearing in our daily lives creating items such as machine parts, bone and limb replacements, clothing and even food. And that's why it is no overstatement to say the possibilities are pretty much endless and 3D printing actually gives us a great hope for the future!

3D printing has been around for decades, so that's nothing new, however, the big change is that 3D printing in recent years has become available to the masses due to expired patents and the price of the 3D printing machines of numerous types coming down to the levels that ordinary people can afford.

It is a revolution, I agree! Third industrial revolution? Yeah, I'll agree to that too. If one looks around themselves they'll notice that they are completely surrounded by manufactured products. For the most part, those products are created by the millionaires of society. For just about any product you set your eyes on, there's a millionaire that owns the intellectual property rights to that product. This is a great divide in society; the haves and have nots. To get a product on the market costs a small fortune, yet that cost is going down down down every year. Shapeways, and the copycat companies that followed Shapeways is a huge factor in the closing of the divide, but also, it is being seen more and more where people are simply buying their own 3D printers and doing their own printing and selling their own products, not to mention making lots of stuff they may need for their own convince. The third industrial revolution is this closing of the divide between the haves and the have nots and this is freeing more minds to create and therefore more innovation is occurring now than ever before. Yes! Hope for the future!

That was nice of Paul to release his scan, I downloaded it, maybe I'll print out a copy someday.

The way 3d printing works is actually truly forthright. Also rather than purely moderating the ledgers of massive establishments and their shareholders, the people set to return the most are shoppers, small organizations and groups that will now have the capability to make attractive much anything believable for inherent markets.