My friend Andy Crouch tapped me to write this piece on 3D printers as an out-of-left-field addition to the multiyear “This is Our City” series he’s overseen for Christianity Today
In a storefront in Manhattan’s NoHo neighborhood, a row of matte-black, LED-lit machines are tracing out the future from spools of colored filament. The machines are 3-D printing what appear to be plastic bracelets, but which could be anything you can dream up or download, as long as it’s small and plastic. This is the Makerbot Store, one part temple, one part learning center. It’s designed to sell people the idea that the promise of the computer and Internet revolutions lies in physical goods as much as digital ones. On the wall, an enlarged cover from Wired magazine shows Makerbot co-founder Bre Pettis. He’s proudly holding the just-announced Replicator 2, under the headline, “This Machine Will Change the World
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