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• When your work involves a technological field, like additive manufacturing (AM), which still flies under the radar for most people, it can often feel like what you do every day...
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When your work involves a technological field, like additive manufacturing (AM), which still flies under the radar for most people, it can often feel like what you do every day exists in its own little container closed off from the rest of the world. The curious thing about that is that AM has repeatedly proven to be directly relevant to some of the world’s most impactful societal developments.
We don’t have to get into those developments now, but the dynamic has reemerged once again in the form of the ongoing conflict in Iran. Just as with all other instances of contemporary military operations, the war in Iran is a drone conflict, and that means that AM has a disproportionately large role to play in the industrial base activities of the belligerents. International powers are already in