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Hotels and 3D printing

located near the Moscone Centre is the Marriott Marquis hotel

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One of ADMA Forum’s second day speakers, Phil McAveety, EVP of Starwood Hotels, had a look at the hotel of the near future.

In Phil’s view, the key to success in the hotel business lies in providing in a unique guest experience as the world’s middle classes explode.

The role of the 3D printers in the hotel experience where guests can order a pair of sneakers or swimming goggles to be printed up when they’ve forgotten their own is one of Phil’s fascinating views on how technology will change the hospitality industry.

Its a shame that most hotels have old style door keys, All Things D looks at a start up called KeyMe that stores details about door keys on the cloud which customers can download 3D printing files.

These two examples illustrate just how a technology like 3D printing will change industries.

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2 responses to “Hotels and 3D printing”

  1. Rohit Thomas

    3D printing is just 1 of them. There is 4D printing and others as well. Technologies are changing industries, business models and lifestyles completely (http://rohitthomas.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/technologies-changing-industries-business-models-and-lifestyles-completely-4/-more can be read from here though just written tiny part of blog here). Disruptive technologies would also be changing the world and having an economic impact of about $14 trillion to $33 trillion per year by 2025. Borders, Polaroid, Pan Am and Woolworth’s are few examples of the worst business failures in history while Wang Laboratories, Digital Equipment, HMV, Blockbuster, Motorola and Sun Microsystems were great companies that were acquired by others. Kodak, GM, Ford, Dell, Yahoo, Microsoft, Sony, Honda and Nokia, on the other hand, are few other great companies that lost their edge. Also, some of the dying careers would be traditional pharmacists, drivers, astronauts, soldiers, babysitters, sportswriters and other reporters, jobs within hospitality, entertainment and retail outlets as well as manufacturing assembly jobs, postal service workers, office and administrative workers, telemarketing and door-to-door sales. The thriving careers on the other hand would be like data scientists (statisticians), research and design managers, computer programmers and network administrators, medical assistants, etc. Individuals would also need to take into consideration that full-time jobs would be a dying trend.

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    1. Rohit Thomas

      3D printing is just 1 of them. There is 4D printing and others as well. Technologies are changing industries, business models and lifestyles completely (http://rohitthomas.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/technologies-changing-industries-business-models-and-lifestyles-completely-4/ -more can be read from here though just written tiny part of blog here). Disruptive technologies would also be changing the world and having an economic impact of about $14 trillion to $33 trillion per year by 2025. Borders, Polaroid, Pan Am and Woolworth’s are few examples of the worst business failures in history while Wang Laboratories, Digital Equipment, HMV, Blockbuster, Motorola and Sun Microsystems were great companies that were acquired by others. Kodak, GM, Ford, Dell, Yahoo, Microsoft, Sony, Honda and Nokia, on the other hand, are few other great companies that lost their edge. Also, some of the dying careers would be traditional pharmacists, drivers, astronauts, soldiers, babysitters, sportswriters and other reporters, jobs within hospitality, entertainment and retail outlets as well as manufacturing assembly jobs, postal service workers, office and administrative workers, telemarketing and door-to-door sales. The thriving careers on the other hand would be like data scientists (statisticians), research and design managers, computer programmers and network administrators, medical assistants, etc. Individuals would also need to take into consideration that full-time jobs would be a dying trend.

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