Anderson Chris. Makers: The New Industrial Revolution

New York: Crown Business, 2012. — 250 p.Wired magazine editor 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.The Revolution
The Invention Revolution
The New Industrial Revolution
The History of the Future
We Are All Designers Now
The Long Tail of Things
The Future
The Tools of Transformation
Open Hardware
Reinventing the Biggest Factories of All
The Open Organization
Financing the Maker Movement
Maker Businesses
The Factory in the Cloud
DIY Biology
Epilogue
Appendix: The 21st Century Workshop
Getting started with CAD
Getting started with 3-D printing
Getting started with 3-D scanning