The Maker Movement- Goodbye Mass Production, Hello Home Industry

JupiterKid

I was chatting with a friend yesterday and he told me of an article he read (linked here) about the implications of the rise of 3D printing and how society over the next 50 years could be revolutionised by the "maker movement" whereby mass production of goods in factories (aka "Fordism") could be supplanted by a flexible, atomised system of cottage industries where people will produce customised goods at home for their own consumption or sell them onto a other customers globally via the internet.

It's certainly food for thought.

Instead of buying a mass produced and mass marketed product in a shop, you will be able to create it on your 3D printer at home or order it locally from a small-scale specialist "maker." This could obviously revolutionise manufacturing, logistics, marketing and other facets of modern society. :cool:

Article here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23990211

Fox_In_Socks

I'm whittling presents for my family this year.

NuckingFacker

Goodbye mass-production, hello loads of 3d printed toy soldiers and crappy wooden picnic tables no-one wants. Nice idea, but good luck with that.

miss tickle

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

I'm whittling presents for my family this year.

New buzz word for 3D printing, better tm it fast.:)