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Name: Makers
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Author: Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson

The New Industrial Revolution

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'Makers' by Chris Anderson is a guidebook for the modern entrepreneur, providing practical advice on how to turn creative ideas into successful businesses. The book explores the growing trend of digital manufacturing and how it is changing the landscape of entrepreneurship and innovation.

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What’s in it for me? Tune into the future of manufacturing.

Remember your first printer? Your first computer? What about your first Microsoft Word document, or whatever you used for word processing? Remember that tingly mix of excitement and curiosity? That, “I’m not sure what this is, but I like it?” sensation?

Well get ready, because that sensation is about to return. It won’t come from computer gadgets, but from manufacturing. Just as printers allow self-publishing, and laptops perform complex calculations, soon we’ll all be manufacturing things at home.

These blinks will show you just how close we are to another technological revolution. This time it’s one that allows almost anyone to sit at home, download a file and “print” – or manufacture – a toy, a product, a device or whatever your imagination can cook up.

In these blinks, you’ll discover

why this new technology could reverse decades of outsourcing;
how one company reached its $100,000 targeted funding in two hours; and
how the author could download his daughters some new toys.

The Maker Movement is about people manufacturing things and sharing ideas.

People have always made things. Today, however, Makers are designing things on computers and manufacturing them at home without physical resources, using digital tools. What’s more, they share their ideas in online communities.

The DIY spirit of the punk and web era has arrived in the form of manufacturing, where instead of relying on large corporations for goods, people can create them themselves.

For example, when the author’s daughters wanted new furniture for their dollhouse, they found the selection available from classic toymakers to be very limited. While they did find the Victorian sofas and chairs they wanted, they couldn’t find the right size.

So, the author searched the web, and found a website offering online design files for dollhouse furniture. There, he found designs for Victorian furniture and modified the files so that they fit the size of his daughters’ dollhouse.

But having the designs isn’t the same as having the furniture. So, he simply printed the files on his 3D printer – for free.

The Makers are empowered by the web’s culture of sharing and collaborating. Open source software, for example, enables people to write and modify software to fit their own needs for free instead of getting mass-produced, one-size-fits-all programs that don’t always meet the needs of the user.

Just like the chair and sofa designs that the author found online, people actively design things that were previously unavailable and make them available for others. Then anybody with the know-how can modify the files and improve them.

We see this exemplified by the micro-culture and community that has arisen around creating weapons for toy manufacturer LEGO.

LEGO itself doesn’t make toys that resemble contemporary weapons, like assault rifles or grenade launchers. So, hobbyists design them online, where they can be shared and modified. These toys are then manufactured using 3D printers at home or by sending the files to online manufacturing services.

Some people even turned this hobby into a legitimate business, such as the LEGO weapon manufacturer BrickArms.

Cheaper and more powerful technologies always lead the way – just think of your printer.

If you’re an inventor, then you know that we’re in a golden age. Whereas in the past inventors depended on large manufacturers to turn their dreams into reality, today they can produce prototypes from their own homes.

According to Moore’s Law, there is a strong tendency for computer hardware to get both cheaper and more powerful over time. This is due to something called compound learning curves, whereby even incremental improvements lead to huge benefits. As a result, innovations follow extremely quickly, with breakthrough discoveries happening about every three years.

Crowdfunding helps shrink the gap between inventor and entrepreneur.

Every inventor or start-up founder knows that they’re going to have to raise money if they want to make their idea a reality.

Normally, start-ups have to raise funds with the help of venture capitalists or loans to manufacture their product, but crowdfunding changes all that.

Manufacturing will eventually move back to developed countries.

If you’ve ever been to Detroit or Toledo, it becomes depressingly clear that manufacturing has been outsourced for decades. Today that’s all changing.

Digital manufacturing techniques make it possible for developed countries to compete with the low-cost labor in other countries, like China. By automating activities that once required huge amounts of human labor, they’re able to make those activities cheaper.

There will be more small-scale manufacturers.

So what will happen to the giant manufacturers? Will the Maker Movement kill them off?

Not exactly. Just as AT&T didn’t vanish with the rise of the web, 3D printing probably won’t destroy large manufacturers such as General Mills. Those companies will, however, lose their monopoly as manufacturers, and will have to compete with small enterprises that make things for niche markets.

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Worum geht es in Makers?

Makers (2012) outlines the radical changes that are taking place in the manufacturing world, made possible by the internet and digital manufacturing technologies, and explores its implications for business and society.

Wer Makers lesen sollte

Anyone who wants to know more about new business models and new technologies
Anyone interested in 3D printing and open hardware
Anyone interested in the future of manufacturing

Über den Autor

Chris Anderson is a journalist, entrepreneur and author of the internationally acclaimed books The Long Tale and Free. He is also the former editor-in-chief of technology magazine Wired and CEO of the drone manufacturer 3D Robotics.

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