One of the best This American Life epizodes I’ve heard.
It’s spring, so we’re opening windows and going places. This week we have stories of people who, for reasons that they can’t always explain, feel compelled to get out and go somewhere. Including the story of one man who decides to take a trip from Philadelphia to San Francisco — by foot.
Another great episode of The Critical Path.
Horace is pointing out the BS news write about Apple and then thinks loud about possibilities in car manufacturing disruption.
Podcast tip:
Anderson argues that the plummeting prices of 3D printers and other tabletop design and manufacturing tools allows for individuals to enter manufacturing and for manufacturing to become customized in a way that was unimaginable until recently. Anderson explores how social networking interacts with this technology to create a new world of crowd-sourced design and production.
Go the EconTalk site where you can listen, download and follow a bunch of links.
I like the analogy that the 3D printers are in similar stage to where personal computing where in the Homebrew computer club ages on 1976.
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Horace Dediu in this week’s Critical Path:
The market is changing so quickly and the value is so enormous in the marketplace. This is the future of computing and I’m not saying just personal computing I’m saying all computing. This is in many ways the future of civilization and how money is made. The stakes could not be higher.
Do yourself a favor and listen to it.
Another great epizode of Critical Path where, among others, such topics as Apple, China, industrialization, “Google has no friends” and others are connected by Horace Dediu.