Chris Anderson on Makers and Manufacturing
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.
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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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