# Intrduction

![3D printing](https://s3.amazonaws.com/img.courses.warmersun.com/progressandpredictions/3dprinting.png)

![Internet of Things (IOT)](https://s3.amazonaws.com/img.courses.warmersun.com/progressandpredictions/iot.png)

The **Portal** is the power to go back and forth between the real word, the world of atoms and the imagined world, the world of bits.

![Convergence Canvas Portal](https://s3.amazonaws.com/img.courses.warmersun.com/progressandpredictions/Convergence+Canvas+Portal.png)

The *Internet of Things (IOT)* give the ability to sense the real world - microphones to hear, cameras to see etc. - so that those measurements become information.

*3D-Printing* is additive manufacturing, how we turn information - a design - into reality.