ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT In this nal chapter, the editors of this book look at the future to see how AM will inuence our everyday life in the coming days and how on-demand manufacturing can inuence new product development or community-centric business development or educating our next generation of students with their innovative ideas. It is envisioned that the differences between the manufacturing nations and predominantly consumer nations will decrease in the future due to the use of AM. In combination with Internetbased technologies and the computer-aided designs, AM will make a at world even more uniform for the generations to come.
