What do consumers need to know about artificial invention?
Today’s consumers are not content to be passive recipients of the products they buy. They want to tinker with and improve their PCs, iPods, and Xboxes. The Internet now enables such “prosumers” to collaborate with each other and share their designs instantly and across the globe. Three-dimensional desktop printers that can automatically manufacture products at the touch of a button are quickly becoming as affordable as yesterday’s laser printers. Combine these developments with rapidly-improving artificial invention technology, and tomorrow’s amateur home consumer will have the R&D capability of today’s mega-corporations.
