3D Printing and Friends

[RobH2]

I've had a slightly different response from my friends. While they think it is cool, they think I'm a bit of a mad scientist and don't really get too inquisitive. They ask me if I've printed anything cool lately, I show it and then things move on to other topics. I just don't think they fully understand what they are looking at even as I've done my best to describe it. Maybe I am a tremendous geek in my circle of friends. In fairness to them, I am a little older so maybe they are so absorbed in the things they are doing (like paying for their kid's college) that they just aren't that curious.

But that's an interesting observation. The press likes to say that within "x" years over 50% of the public will have a 3d printer. Maybe there is going to be a division of interest based on age. From my perspective, 40-50ish friends of mine are mildly interested and I'd bet few of them would say "yes" if I asked, "would you buy a 3d printer anytime soon?"

[old man emu]

Maybe there is going to be a division of interest based on age.

I think that older people, and I'm a Baby Boomer, are "Change Fatigued". In our lives we have experienced so much change that as we reach out later years, and the end of our working lives, we are tired of trying to adapt to the latest NEW thing. Most of us just want to stop working as we have for the past 40 - 50 years and enjoy the freedom of retirement. So it's only a few crazy people like me who think they can live forever who try to keep mentally young by adopting new technologies.

Old Man Emu

[RobH2]

Very funny, I've been called MacGyver since I was 20 or so. I guess we are all tinker geeks to the end.