Popular Science is running an article on how the ubiquitous inkjet printer has become the inspiration for the rather futuristic-seeming 3-dimensional 'printing' of objects. Those objects run the gamut from nanomachines to replacement body parts, from plastics to houses and from circuit boards to flexible displays. As the author puts it, inkject technology jump-started the field of microfluidics.

The UN has decided to figure out why the subject that is responsible for most if not all of our modern-day technology is subject to such disdain by students and lay-people alike.