Stevington Partners

As the iPhone queues lengthen and governments reconsider licence auctions, perhaps the FT's Jonathan Guthrie was right in suggesting long-term evolution (4G or LTE) will be of as much use to Britons as "snuff and moustache wax".

3D printing, the deposition of successive layers of materials, which are fused to create solid objects, may prove the most disruptive technology to emerge in a century.