ABSTRACT
The overarching framework for this book's scenarios is a world defined not by nation-states but by mobilities. Critical mobilities research provides an alternative to a regional optic through radically revising understandings of the production of space; the politics of transport; the fluid hypermobility of elites; the (im)mobilities of the still, stranded and stateless; and the relations between bodies, movement and space more generally. The first uncertainty of the 3D society in this book is energy. Fossil fuels – petroleum, coal and natural gas – are unequivocally the energy source par excellence for the majority of the world's transportation technologies. The second uncertainty of the 3D society, related to the first, is the climate. The third uncertainty of the 3D society is governance: who will be in charge in the future and how this will shape the 3D printing ecosystem. Fourth there are global social inequalities.
