3D printers for individuals: will they change the world?

Three-dimensional printing was recently named by Goldman Sachs as one of eight technologies that are going to creatively destroy how we do business.

Experts say 3D printers will soon be in every home, but are they fads or will they change the world? Of course, 3D printers aren’t printers at all; they are model-making machines that squirt out molten plastic to create highly intricate and accurate designs. They have...

23 future technologies

          WHILE WE can’t really predict what the future holds, we can look at how far we’ve come with technology in merely the last decade and realize the present we know now will, very soon, find itself memorialized in nostalgia. Here are some technologies on the horizon that are poised to change your life.