Publisher Description
3D Robotics co-founder 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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“Imagine buying a car and when advanced technologies get invented your car getting newer and newer software versions installed. Just like your iPhone. Cars are getting more and and more software and less and less hardware. Crowd funding and kick starter projects are spreading and bypassing the needs for venture capitalists. Posting an idea in public, garnering support, collecting funds and then producing the products bypasses the need for marketing These are the type of stories Chris Anderson telling in his new book Makers. Amazing is the degree of collaboration and natural selection that happens in such communities and the level to which people are able to follow their dreams despite geography, academic credentials and wealth. Also there is a deep sense of fulfilment and volunteering for the cause that happens as most of these are not led by profit motives, but for community recognition and inner enrichment.”
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Jan (4 out of 5 stars)
