Need A College Entrance Essay Topic? Write About the 3D Printing Revolution
It worked for Moritz Bappert. His essay “How Personal Fabrication Might Change the World” helped land him a seat at Stanford’s Summer Session, where he took courses on programming and astronomy, and had the opportunity to meet Mark Zuckerberg.
Bappert envisions a world where people skip shopping entirely and instead rely on their own DIY 3D printer to make their own custom products. Of course, no essay on the 3D printing revolution is complete without a quote from one of its DIY pioneers:
“It’s a really great time to subvert the dominant paradigm of centralized corporate manufacturing.” -Bre Pettis
How do you think at-home 3D printing can democratize manufacturing? What are ways that cheap 3D printers are changing the world right now? Do you think there will be a day when every home has its own 3D printer? What would an average day be like for someone in this 3D printing utopia?
Write your own essay about 3D printers and regale the college admissions committees. If you end up publishing it on your blog, tell us about it!
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M. Makosiewicz
I’d like to confirm that the topic of 3D printing can be a very rewarding topic for students
In June 2010 I wrote my master of arts thesis (in philosophy) about the phenomenon of prosumerism, in which I had a special space for 3D printing and of course Makerbot 
Currently I’m trying to develop my work here http://prosumerism.wordpress.com/.
If you’re searching for literature that would help you with envisioning a world of at-home-manufacturing and revolutionized market go to my blog, section “useful books”; for this puropose I especially recommend “Wikinomics” and “The Third Wave” and “Netocracy”.
Best regards