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. 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".