ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the idea that the technical innovation of 3D printing represents a coming transition in the manufacturing and transportation of objects. The chapter considers how the transfer of 3D printing to the global South is a key moment in the movement beyond the limits of cargo. Next it turn to bring cargo to the bottom of pyramid (BOP) in an alternative way to either changing marketing practices or attempting to solve infrastructure deficits through taking advantage of the radical changes that digital cargo make to cargomobilities. Together the elements in this chapter provides a way station to understand how 3D printing is to be made a viable approach to meaningful social change in material poverty for the BOP. The chapter appraised a 3D printing ecosystem that imagined digital cargo delivered to the BOP by community printers, open source repositories of designs, circular economies of materials from waste, and renewable and off-grid infrastructures.
