Makers
Subtitle: the new industrial revolution
By: Chris Anderson
Publisher: Random House Business Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781847940650; 9781448136803; 9781847940667
Subjects: Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing industries; Electronic commerce; New business enterprises
Description: If a country wants to remain economically vibrant, it needs to manufacture things. In recent years, however, many nations have become obsessed with making money out of selling services, leaving the real business of manufacturing to others. Makers is about how all that is being reversed. Over the past ten years, the internet has democratised publishing, broadcasting and communications, leading to a massive increase in the range of participation in everything digital - the world of bits. Now the same is happening to manufacturing - the world of things. Chris Anderson, bestselling author of The Long Tail, explains how this is happening: how such technologies as 3D printing and electronics assembly are becoming available to everybody, and how people are building successful businesses as a result. Whereas once every aspiring entrepreneur needed the support of a major manufacturer, now anybody with a smart idea and a little expertise can make their ideas a reality. Just as Google, Facebook and others have created highly successful companies in the virtual world, so these new inventors and manufacturers are assuming positions of ever greater importance in the real world. The next industrial revolution is on its way.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The invention revolution; title: The new industrial revolution; title: The history of the future; title: We are all designers now; title: The long tail of things; title: The tools of transformation : four desktop factories; title: Open hardware; title: Reinventing the biggest factories of all; title: The open organization; title: Financing the maker movement; title: Maker businesses; title: The factory in the Cloud; title: DIY biology; title: Epilogue : the new shape of the industrial world; title: Appendix. The 21st century workshop. Getting started with CAD ; Getting started with 3-D printing ; Getting started with 3-D scanning ; Getting started with laser cutting ; Getting started with CNC machines ; Getting started with electronics.