The September issue of Popular Mechanics features a special section gazing 50 years ahead to imagine colonization of the moon and Mars.
Editor-in-Chief James B. Meigs and a team of respected staff and outside experts explore the topic and make their best predictions of what is to come.
The one forecast that most caught our attention came […]

Author Vince Poscente doesn’t mention rapid prototyping or rapid manufacturing once in his book, The Age of Speed.
Yet the newly released business book, from award-winning publisher Bard Press, makes clear why the technologies surrounding 3-D printing are destined to revolutionize design and manufacturing in the United States and around the globe.
Poscente’s basic premise is that […]

Go ahead. Mess up. It’s good for your business and it is good for your customers.
That is the underlying message of Todd Grimm’s compelling article in the current edition of Tooling & Production (T&P), where Grimm spells out the many financial and strategic advantages that accrue to companies that aren’t enfeebled by the rigidity of […]