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Emerging technologies are typically subject to public hype and 3D printing (i.e., additive manufacturing) is no exception. At times, people said 3D printing was going to take over the world. We were going to be printing everything, everywhere. At the same time, others were saying the technology would never get out of the prototype phase. Of course, the reality lies somewhere in between and many a heated debate has been had on what that reality actually is. For those of us working in the world of 3D printing, we have all encountered people that feel passionate about both extremes of the present state and the future of the industry.
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DelVecchio, S.M. (2021). Introduction. In: DelVecchio, S.M. (eds) Women in 3D Printing. Women in Engineering and Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70736-1_1
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