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Contour Crafting: Automated Construction as a Destructive Technology
29th August 2012
Here is a thought-provoking talk by Behrokh Khoshnevis, Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and is the Director of Manufacturing Engineering Graduate Program at the University of Southern California (USC). He offers ways in which 3D manufacturing can revolutionise the construction industry and make it possible for customised building projects at a fraction of the financial and environmental cost. But what of the risks of a sizeable rise in technological unemployment?