Makers - Random House, 2012 - viii + 257 p. ; 20 cm - Business .

the new industrial revolution

The invention revolution -- The new industrial revolution ---- The history of the future ---- We are all designers now ---- The long tail of things ---- The tools of transformation : four desktop factories ---- 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 : the new shape of the industrial world ---- Appendix : The 21st century workshop : Getting started with CAD ; Getting started with 3-D printing ; Getting started with 3-D scanning ; Getting started with laser cutting ; Getting started with CNC machines ; Getting started with electronics.--

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.

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HB Economic Theory. Demography


Manufacturing industries
Electronic commerce
New business enterprises

Entrepreneurship