People can start manufacturing goods at a low price,

If these machines take off, it will give individual people the chance to do this themselves, and we are talking about making a lot of our consumer goods. The effect this has on industry and society could be dramatic.

The most interesting part of this is that we're going to give it away,

Farmers have been dealing with self-replicating products for years.

It makes industry a little more like agriculture,

It is the first technology that we can have that can simultaneously make people more wealthy while reducing the need for industrial production.