3D Printers and DIY epipens: what could the medical industry look like in 2050?

Working 2050: QA (Manufacturing). Working 2050 is a speculative fiction oral history, comprised of interviews with workers of the future. Read the rest here.

Diane Guin is 34, a quality assurance investigator for home and cooperative medical printers. We met at her apartment on Western. She’s a little sunburned.

Her partner, Ant, occasionally joins in the conversation, with one eye on the 7 year old cleaning the snail tank in the next room.

When I tell people that I do Quality Assurance, they almost always get excited because they think it’s like an episode of Biome Fraud (1). Like I’m just always slamming open the doors open in skyscrapers and shooting up corporate bosses — “Bam! You’re headed to the ICC, buddy!”

I’m not going to pretend I wasn’t thinking about Biome Fraud at all when I applied for this job.