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Fabricated, the new book by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman provides readers with practical and imaginative insights to the question "how will 3D printing technologies change my life?" Based on hundreds of hours of research and dozens of interviews with experts from a broad range of industries, Fabricated offers readers an informative, engaging and fast-paced introduction to 3D printing now and in the future.

The first chapter of Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman's Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing is set in the future with the family kitchen incorporating a 3D printer outfitted with food cartridges cooks up breakfast, while across the street a giant printing nozzle oozes out the concrete foundation of a new home. Investigators look into the  bioprinting black market, where counterfeiters sell sloppily printed organs for transplants.

The scenario seems like science fiction, but Lipson and Kurman make a compelling case that some version of it is not far off.

3D printing creates objects by building up successive layers of material, is poised to shake up everything from manufacturing to medicine according to the authors.

Based on hundreds of hours of research and dozens of interviews with experts from a broad range of industries, Fabricated offers readers an informative, engaging and fast-paced introduction to 3D printing now and in the future. Written by two leading experts on 3D printing, Fabricated is the first book to address both the practical and imaginative insights to the question “how will this technology change my life?”

Lipson, a robotics engineer at Cornell University, and technology analyst Kurman explore how these machines are already wending their way into many facets of society, including food, fashion and education.