Makers: The New Industrial Revolution
Wired magazine editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and...
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Wired magazine editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is about to be unleashed, driving a resurgence of American manufacturing. A generation of “Makers” using the Web’s innovation model will help drive the next big wave in the global economy, as the new technologies of digital design and rapid prototyping gives everyone the power to invent -- creating “the long tail of things”.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780307720955 (0307720950)
ASIN: 0307720950
Publish date: 2012-10-02
Publisher: Crown Business
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Science,
Technology,
Computers,
Internet,
Business,
Economics,
Culture,
Design,
Society
The book that follows on from where the Long Tail started. Only this time it's about the manufacture of niche items and products.It describes how anyone these days can set themselves up as a manufacturer of a company to make anything and everything. THis can be done by using open source designs, col...