3D Printing: Innovation & Conflict

On April 4, 2014, Reason TV attended the Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo, a three-day event held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. There we caught up with: Hod Lipson, an engineering professor at Cornell University, who compared the excitement swirling around the 3D printing industry to what it felt like to work in the computer industry in the 1970s.

Human innovation has a tendency to directly clash with monetary constraints such as patents, and other intellectual property. 3D printing technology is a beautiful example of such a clash...