The Wired cover story from a couple issues ago grabbed my attention for a couple reasons. Reason One: it felt like a mainstream-futurist-friendly version of a recent cover story in Make Magazine. Reason Two: the following pull-quote seemed insanely dead-on and prescient:
"Here’s the history of two decades in one sentence: If the past 10 years have been about discovering post-institutional social models on the Web, then the next 10 years will be about applying them to the real world."
If you aren't hip to 3-D printers yet—like the one MakerBot industries sells for just $750—and how these things are changing everything as I type, I'm not going to bore you with an exegesis on it here. Instead, read the first 20 pages of Alex Bogusky's Baked In or just watch this video.
The ramifications of taking true prototyping (and production, in fact) into the private realm are so far-reaching and fun to imagine.
Entire business models of r+d, production, distribution and fulfillment—entrenched since the earliest days of the industrial revolution—are and will continue to be turned on their collective ears.
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