3-D Printing Is Spurring a Manufacturing Revolution

New technology is giving rise to never-before-possible businesses that are selling products like iPhone cases, doorknobs, perfume bottles and architectural models.

All true and not new. We will get the Victorian Aesthetic. Most of the first cost of an object is design cost. That has not changed. Mass manufacture distributed the design cost and supported a middle class. It appears that we will no longer have a middle class. I will miss it. Suicide is a disaster for the survivors.