StarShipSofa Aural Delights No 116 features Bruce Sterling's "Kiosk" in audiobook (MP3) podcast form, on the advent of 3D scanning and printing.
Do you want to know more, before listening to the novel?
Personal Fabrication and Torrented Objects: "Instead of scanning flat paper, we will be able to scan objects in 3 dimensions. Instead of printing an image, we will be able to replicate an object as an object. In between we will be able to manipulate objects just as we edit documents and alter photographs."