WDW152H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: 3D Printing, Progress Trap, Personalized Medicine
12 May 2018
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Skilled craftspeople replaced by large-scale manufacturing. Traditional
jobs lost, new job opportunities created
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We shifted from being producers to consumers
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“Progress”defined as “more”(“Progress trap”)
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Urbanization
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Changed the family from an economic unit to a social unit
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Creation of a middle class
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Harmful to the environment
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Creation of labor unions, which changed politics
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New areas of the law: labor, safety, public health, protection of children &
environment
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Effects of Industrial Revolution
Eliminates production lines (and jobs)
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Reduces waste in manufacturing process
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Enables creation of innovative and complex designs
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Speeds up the design process
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Will mass production give was to mass customization?
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Promotes entrepreneurship
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Producers --> consumers --> producers
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Regeneration : can print scaffolding and add skin cells which grow over
time. Scaffolding then dissolves
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Reconstructing body parts such as skulls and windpipes
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Personalized medicine : printed pills that combine all the medicines a
patient is taking
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3D Printing and Manufacturing
Lecture 2.7: Emerging Technologies: 3-D Printing
March 22, 2017
10:00 AM
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