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Manufacturing for the Masses 大众化的生产模式 Dr. Adrian Bowyer
3D printing is about thirty years old. It has three key characteristics: it is very slow, it is very easy to use, and - now that all the patents on it are expiring - it is also becoming very low cost. These characteristics are the fundamental ones needed for a distributed technology: a technology that it makes more sense for individuals and small groups to own than to gather together in big economies-of-scale factories.
3D打印距今已有30年的历史，共有三个特征： 发展比较慢， 但容易使用，更重要的是所有专利已经过期。 因此生产成本变得非常低了。这些特征是对一项技术大众化推广的最基本要求，相比于传统型集中大规模生产，这个技术更有利于针对个人或者小公司使用。 The RepRap Project is the main reason for the falling costs of
3D printing. But it was not primarily established as a 3D-printing project. It was established to make a useful self-replicating machine. 3D printing was merely the most appropriate technology to use for self-replication.
RepRap 项目是针对低成本3D打印生产应运而生的。 但早期不是针对3D打印这个目的的， 而是希望变成一个自我复制机器的项目。 3D打印技术在此种意义上而言， 是最符合自我复制的技术。
After the fundamental forces of physics, self-replication is the most powerful phenomenon in the Universe. It has transformed this entire planet, which has consequently been knee-deep in self-replicating machines for the last three and a half billion years. (Indeed, your very knees are made out of self-replicating machines.) Driven by the inexorable operation of Darwin's Law, self-replication is also the most efficient method of production that we know.
在宇宙空间内， 除了物理学的基本力学定律外， 自我复制是最强大的现象。 这个现象已经改变了整个星球， 在过去的35亿年里， 整个星球都充满了自我复制机理。 在达尔文定律的残酷驱动下， 自我复制是据人类而言最有效的的生产方式。
This talk will be about the introduction of open-source self-replicating 3D printers as a primary means of engineering production, and the possible social and economic consequences of that in the distribution of production away from centralised facilities owned by the few towards mass ownership by small groups and by individuals.
我的报告将介绍开源3D打印机作为工程生产中的在自我复制手段。 通过群众化的个体， 小公司掌握该技术用于生产，从而改变被少数人操控的集中生产模式， 因此而造成的社会， 经济方面的影响。
（注：这个摘要仅仅是介绍报告所涉及的范畴，详细内容需要到会场听报告和随后的探讨会， 更多关于RepRap和Adiran Bowyer 博士的介绍请参考 http://www.reprap.org/wiki/RepRap/zh_cn 和 http://adrianbowyer.net/）
原文来源于：西安锐普3D打印机有限公司 www.reprappro.com.cn
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