From Milano....
Last night meetup was really good. We were not many, just seven, but we did enjoy talking a lot about 3D print technology and hot it is changing many aspects of our life.
We gathered in piazza XXIV maggio as planned and after the 30 minutes planned we moved to a Pizzeria nearby.
Then in the Pizzeria we started the real talks about how Shapeways was the key for this meeting and what each of us was expecting from it. Tech talks, biz talks, ideas and so on. We had a designer, a manufacturer of small but clever acessories for home and office, we had an architect, an university researcher, a student, a technical manager, another joung student and me (a technical journalist).
Thanks to the availability of Internet in the Pizzeria we also looked at the creative apps that Shapeways offers (like the minecraft ot the vase app) discussing how it could be if we were able to develop something as interesting as these apps (biz talks
). One of the main points was : an idea on the Internet or something that uses the Internet but it is physical and somewhere with a real shop? The answer was "depends on what you're aiming at: B2B or B2C", but that was too easy as an aswer and our "idea for our future" didn't show up yet.
Anyway, different points of view and different experiences were the fuel for a very interesting evening. We will create a group on Facebook to keep in touch and exchange our ideas and experiences because we're - or at least we think - a small group that has already understood that our future will involve 3D Print and here in Italy, apart from geniuses like our Enrico Dini, not many do realize that 3D Print is a technology that will be pervasive with a very fast and many "unexpected" applications.
We also shared our 3D prints, with some of us still waiting for the first prints from Shapeways arriving in the mail.
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