What if you could print any 3d item you wanted instantly on your kitchen table?

How would this change your personal world? How would it change your local shops? Your Internet shopping? Your attitude to intellectual property? Would it save you time? Save you money? Reintroduce design skills? Empower us to become our own producers?

Or, would it change nothing? Are we too busy, too time scarce to want to design our own goods? After all, wood is readily available to carve, gardens are available to grow our fruits and vegetables, yet grocery stores still thrive. Or are these entrenched attitudes reinforced by our current way of doing things?

Of course, attitudes and ways can always be changed…

Answers on a postcard.