MAKERS: THE NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

摘要

Makers: The New Industrial Revolution provides a timely and insightful overview of "micromanufacturing," a potentially disruptive innovation that could have a significant impact on business, the economy, and life in general. Anderson is a former editor of Wired magazine, the author of the bestseller The Long Tail, and an inventor and entrepreneur himself. The book focuses on the rise of the Maker movement, which leverages new desktop manufacturing technologies, open source design communities, and liberal attitudes toward intellectual property, all in a distributive fashion. Anderson envisions this movement accelerating "innovation in atoms," in a manner not unlike what the Internet did to accelerate "innovation in bits." Anderson has built a business that employs some of the new technologies and manufacturing methodologies that he features in the book.