Manufacturing Revival Radio
Manufacturing Revival Radio is a podcast celebrating the resurgence and innovation of manufacturing. Hosted by Todd Schnick and Todd Youngblood, it features the companies, the leaders, the innovators leading the charge. Driving the innovation.
The Makers Movement and the New Manufacturing
It's a pleasure to welcome Chris Anderson to the show! Chris is the Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine and best-selling author of The Long Tail and Free.
But today, he joins us to talk about his latest work, Makers: The New Industrial Revolution. In the book, Chris 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.
Here are some of the highlights of our conversation:
1) “If I can run a factory…anybody can.”
2) What is the Makers movement? “The web generation meets the real world.”
3) “A new innovation model has been born…”
4) What are some of the new technologies that are going to make this happen?
5) Can the average guy on the street get access to these new tools, or more importantly, have an understanding of what is really possible?
6) “The file menu goes from saying print, to now saying make.”
7) How can a traditional, bricks-n-mortar manufacturer tap into this Makers movement?
8) Open source, open hardware, and the patent/copyright issues that may crop up…
9) The web ended the monopoly of mass media. Now, the mass manufacturing monopoly may be ending too.
10) Chris references the following during the broadcast: GeekDad, DIY Drones, and MFG.com.
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