“In the second room were numerous articles on shelves in plastic containers.

Stein pointed. ‘Read the inscription on that-aloud please.’

‘The Winsom Throw Away Shirt.’

‘Fine, there is an article from the age of intranscience. A shirt your wore once and threw away. If you wore it for more than eight hours it fell to pieces on your body.’

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‘You could but six throw away shirts for a shilling. An automobile designed to last for exactly three months… There were five year houses, six week washing machines. Food was supplied in containers designed to last a few weeks…’

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‘As for the food, God knows what some of them concocted, but they left a terrible legacy behind them. The scavengers and micro-organisms which consumed their bodies under-went certain changes, in the course of generations as a result, In consequence, we had changing life forms and new and often virulent micro-organisms….’ ” P.E. High (1967)

If 3D printing follows the expected trajectory within mass-consumption…