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The next episode of 3D printing will involve printing entirely new kinds of materials. Eventually we will print complete products - circuits, motors, and batteries already included. At that point, all bets are off.

3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made.

We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.

3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process.

Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things.

3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.

Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.

We wanted people to 3-D-print anything, not just more 3-D printers.

We started MakerBot in 2009 and made a conscious decision to educate people with the possibilities they could do with 3D printing and share with people what is possible.

We got involved with the RepRap Project, a community focused on making 3-D printers that could make copies of themselves and help create a world without money. We started making prototypes.