NYTimes: “For 3-D printing, whose origins stretch back to the 1980s, the technology, economic and investment trends may finally be falling into place for the industry’s commercial breakout, according to manufacturing experts, business executives and investors. They say 3-D printing, also called additive manufacturing, is no longer a novelty technology for a few consumer and industrial products, or for making prototype design concepts. “It is now a technology that is beginning to deliver industrial-grade product quality and printing in volume,” said Jörg Bromberger, a manufacturing expert at McKinsey & Company.”
The Economist: “Ten years on from the Higgs boson, what is next for physics? New particles beckon as the Large Hadron Collider returns to life.”
Prosenjit Datta: “Three factors have played spoilsport to India becoming a global manufacturing power. One…is the rapid changes in policy and the uncertainty that investors have to face…The second factor, which is talked about whenever businessmen meet, is the cost and difficulty of doing business on the ground…The third factor that is almost never talked about but needs to be examined and discussed is the poor quality standards set by Indian regulators and the government in almost every sector —and the even worse monitoring and implementation of these standards.”
