Makers: The New Industrial Revolution - Couverture souple

Anderson, Chris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847940668 ISBN 13 : 9781847940667

Editeur : Random House Business, 2012

Synopsis

If a country wants to remain economically vibrant, it needs to manufacture things. In recent years, however, many nations have become obsessed with making money out of selling services, leaving the real business of manufacturing to others.

Makers is about how all that is being reversed. Over the past ten years, the internet has democratised publishing, broadcasting and communications, leading to a massive increase in the range of participation in everything digital - the world of bits. Now the same is happening to manufacturing - the world of things.

Chris Anderson, bestselling author of The Long Tail, explains how this is happening: how such technologies as 3D printing and electronics assembly are becoming available to everybody, and how people are building successful businesses as a result. Whereas once every aspiring entrepreneur needed the support of a major manufacturer, now anybody with a smart idea and a little expertise can make their ideas a reality. Just as Google, Facebook and others have created highly successful companies in the virtual world, so these new inventors and manufacturers are assuming positions of ever greater importance in the real world.

The next industrial revolution is on its way.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Chris Anderson was Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine from 2001 to 2012. He led the magazine to nine National Magazine Award nominations, winning the top prize for General Excellence in 2005, 2007 and 2009. AdAge magazine named him Editor of the Year in 2005. Previously he was at The Economist, Nature and Science magazines. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed The Long Tail, which was shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in 2006 and won the Loeb Award for best business book in 2007. He is currently the founder and CEO of 3DRobotics. He lives in Northern California with his wife and five children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Random House Business
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847940668
• ISBN 13: 9781847940667
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Harder; https://www.edel.com; ; Neum�hlen 17; Hamburg; Hamburg; 22763; Allemagne