   Print me a Stradivarius  How a new manufacturing technology
will change the world  See article  Readers' comments    In this
instance the comments are much more interesting than the
article. At least, after one gets past or filters out the "this
can never work" and "whoa for the newly unemployed" comments.
The truth of the claims that this will prove a revolutionary
technology will, I suspect, be verified (relatively) slowly by
impacts more along the lines of those due to Gutenberg's
innovation than impacts similar to the laser printer innovation.
Ultimately, Gutenberg and his heirs empowered literacy. Much
flowed from _that_ impact, not the least of which was ultimately
far more writers. Does anyone reading this post truly believe I
would be typing it if movable type had not been conceived and
implemented lo that half-millenium ago? Can most of us even
conceive of a world without this innovation?  Yet the written
word was well established before moveable type arrived. Just as
fabrication is well-establis