Makers
The New Industrial Revolution
Crown · Print & ebook · April 8, 2014
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A lively lens on how digital design and rapid prototyping could reshape who makes things.
- Genres
- Manufacturing, Starting a Business, Robotics
- Published
- Crown, April 8, 2014
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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.
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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”.
Making Things New
A lively lens on how digital design and rapid prototyping could reshape who makes things.
Come here for
- The collision of open-source design, 3-D printing, and manufacturing
- A big-picture look at who gets to make things
Expect
- Entrepreneurship and technology viewed through manufacturing
- Ideas about a new industrial revolution, not a how-to manual
Where it sits
| Robotics | 55% |
|---|---|
| Starting a Business | 53% |
| Manufacturing | 30% |
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Publisher categories
- Manufacturing Industry
- Manufacturing
- Inventions
- Authors
- René Ruiz, Chris Anderson, Random House Audio
- Publisher
- Crown
- Published
- April 8, 2014
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Manufacturing Industry