*Those are beautiful. I'm tempted to buy one of his weird flying gizmos just to reward this form of poetry. If I could just hook it up to a Little Printer with an Arduino... how hard could that be?
*And mind you, that's Stewart Brand taking the notes here. When Stewart is recording your neologisms, you know you're "firing on all cylinders" (((
Subject: [SALT] Desktop manufacturing changes world (Chris Anderson talk)
Date: February 22, 2013 10:26:51 AM MST
"We’re now entering the third industrial revolution, Anderson said. The first one, which began with the spinning jenny in 1776, doubled the human life span and set population soaring. From the demographic perspective, “it’s as if nothing happened before the Industrial Revolution.”
"The next revolution was digital. Formerly industrial processes like printing were democratized with desktop publishing. The “cognitive surplus” (((Anderson doesn't have to make them up himself, he also excels at publicly deploying other people's neologisms, which is equally if not even more praiseworthy))) of formerly passive consumers was released into an endless variety of personal creativity. Then distribution was democratized by the Web, which is “scale agnostic and credentials agnostic.” Anyone can potentially reach 7 billion people. (((Not that anybody, including Psy and Gangnam Style, has ever actually done that.)))
"The third revolution is digital manufacturing, which combines the gains of the first two revolutions. Factory robots, which anyone can hire, have become general purpose and extremely fast. They allow “lights-out manufacturing,” (((
