| 3D Printing Poses Challenges
Caijing Magazine
January 7, 2013
Printing in 3D, also referred to as additive manufacturing, is a process of making three-dimensional solid objects from a digital model. Accordingly, an object is created by laying down successive layers of material. It is distinct from traditional machining techniques (subtractive processes), which mostly rely on the removal of material by cutting and drilling.
The fast development of 3D printing has posed challenges to China's traditional manufacturing industry. The process needs much less labor than traditional manufacturing, causing foreign factories, which came to China for its low-cost labor, to return to their own countries.
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By Steve Kelman
Will this new generation of young people, who eschew telephone conversation in favor of texts, social media and the Internet, change as they enter the workforce? Or will they simply change professional communication as we know it?
I found some interesting evidence on this issue from an unlikely source—the weekly Chinese English-language magazine Beijing Review. This publication recently ran an article called The Anti-Social Network on the impact of texting and social media on the behavior of young people. My guess is that work similar to that discussed in this article has also been done in the United States—and, if anything, the consistency of the findings in two very different cultures actually is quite powerful.
(The author the Weatherhead Professor of Public Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government) | 
