3D Printing Means You Get to Sleep In During the Holiday 2021 Season

Friday, November 26, 2021.

It's 3:30 a.m. In all the previous day-after-Thanksgiving early mornings since Carla Jenkins got her driver's license, the annual tradition was to get up, put on comfortable mismatched sweats, grab a cup of caffeine and drive in dark, icy, slippery conditions around town and do battle with neighbors, colleagues and fellow consumers for those must-have gifts, which seven weeks later will be pseudo-museum items in others' garages until the spring cleaning gods make everything disappear.

3D printing changes all that forever. Carla gets to sleep in. Have leftovers for breakfast. Find a quiet place at home and order top brand items, perfectly customized and delivered same-day, in a way that transforms holiday shopping from a snow-filled zombie post apocalypse experience, to an opportunity to truly shine as a gift-giver: all from the comfort of home.

The technologies to enable this have all existed for some years, but by 2021, the puzzle all comes together and is expressed through 3D printing: the result of key enabling platforms that produce a beautiful harmony called "hyper-local manufacturing" which is one of the cool kids living under the umbrella of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

3D printing solves some key customer and supply chain issues for all folks involved:

• Customers get authentic/certified highly customizable products made and delivered same day.
• Companies increase their global footprint, reduce inventory in half, and maintain all the quality of product, including proprietary materials.
• Distribution speeds increase so same day is the new normal because of depth and breadth of products which can be 3D printed.

Here's how it works, using the example of Carla Jenkins, who is ordering the absolute perfect branded, custom patterned, tennis shirt for her 13-year-old daughter, Amber:

Carla wants home delivery because Portland, Oregon actually has snow that day in 2021, which means most city folks choose between long walks, camping at home, and/or travel by the MAX train. This means Carla will choose 3D printing through the online site of a mega online distributor because their 3D printing delivery service is same day.

For Carla, the ordering experience for her daughter's 3D printed tennis shirt is nothing different than any of us who order business cards online in 2018: but it's the back-end where the hyper-local manufacturing and the Fourth Industrial Revolution does its thing.

By 2021, Carla's tablet leverages Quantum computing via the cloud (click here to learn more). Carla doesn't know this specifically; she just visits her user-friendly 3D printing design page, but the level of encryption, added with the 5G (which just means fifth generation wireless) at home, allows Carla to safely use 3D printing design software that three years earlier represented the file-size of every e-book ever created.

Because Amber is brand loyal, her Mom will purchase a one-time license from the specific global sports apparel company that has a certified printer a few miles away. Carla doesn't care about the particulars, because after ordering, the supply chain folks will do their magic, but there are some important points that do matter to Carla as a customer:

Because the 3D printing design software integrates with the one-time license from the global sports apparel company, Carla knows for certain that when Amber opens her present it will be 100% authentic.

This is solved in a matter of microseconds and then born out when the 3D printer makes Amber's tennis shirt some 90 minutes later.

Once the online order is completed, confirmed and Carla presses "pay now", Blockchain will complete and authenticate some key transactional and contractual agreements (click here to learn more):

• Blockchain will confirm the one-time license fee is appropriated from the agreed portion of Carla's overall purchase (made through cryptocurrency) to the global sports apparel company which sold the Quantum-encrypted license. By 2021, most intellectual property, depending on license terms and who creates it, also can be authenticated by a Blockchain integrated with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
• Blockchain will confirm the rest of the proceeds went to mega distributor.
• Blockchain will authenticate Carla's order, as a Quantum-encrypted asset to the 3D printer. Sorry, Illuminati, not even you can steal the proceeds nor Amber's order.
• 5G enables all these concurrent steps to happen about as long as it takes you to blink.
• Carla paid with the cryptocurrency "OksanaCoin" which was certified both by the mega distributor and global sports apparel company as being acceptable forms of payment for them, respectively. OksanaCoin was voted Altcoin of the Year by Major League Cryptocurrency.
• The Quantum-encrypted order specs arrived at the certified 3D printer that is an authorized unit of both the sports apparel printer, and "RainforestSupplyChain.com", which guaranteed delivery to Carla within six hours of purchase.

At this point: all the steps needed for Carla to securely place the order for a 3D printed branded, authentic, customized, amazing tennis shirt for her daughter are complete. Now kicks in the fun part of hyper-local manufacturing:

Because this 3D printer is certified by the global sports apparel company, it is has all the proprietary materials to make Amber's tennis shirt exactly to its highest level of excellence. As the shirt is being made, part of the proprietary materials have unique RFID embedded via nanotechnology that, once completed, certified as perfect, and auto-confirmed for shipping, instantaneously is logged into the common Blockchain between the global sports apparel giant, mega distributor and accessible to Carla for tracking.

This will prove the 3D printed tennis shirt is perfect, authentic, and will be both the driver for every order fulfillment & delivery touch point the next few hours until the gift is delivered in person to Carla's doorstep.

Instead of being on the road, in dark and wintry conditions, Carla is well-rested, still in comfy clothes with not a care in the world except how to get through a few more plates of leftovers in the fridge.

The entire same-day 3D tennis shirt order, by the way, will be done at costs (adjusted for inflation) lower than ordering a comparable standard tennis shirt from an on-line retailer in 2018. The economics are also true for future edible & safe 3D printed holiday leftovers -- but let's save room for dessert, and cover that another time.

Justin Lacche is a Fortune 100 Intrapreneur & Innovator in the Blockchain, RFID, Cryptocurrency & Quantum Computing space and also is an Evangelist for the Blockchain Accelerator, which looks to empower the Portland, Oregon area to be the hub of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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