Are low-cost 3D printers a disruptive technology?

摘要

The term "disruptive technology" is used to describe an innovation or technological development that helps to create a new market, disrupting the existing market and possibly displacing an earlier technology, improving a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically by first designing for a different set of consumers in the new market and then lowering prices in the existing market. By Dr Mike Burton