On-demand manufacturing - the future of gear?

I wrote this a short while back. Now looking back i don’t think i was optimistic enough.

Obviously a one off will be more expensive, but since robots don’t get paid, only the company that owns the robots do, it’s likely to not cost a fortune to do custom work.

And really an AI system will also be able to creatively generate new design concepts as well.

So soon. A dozen years maybe.