Makers: The New Industrial Revolution

Anderson's account of the maker movement — open-source design and 3-D printing bringing manufacturing to the desktop and the garage. It fires on several SDF cylinders at once: new Technological building blocks, distributed Partners, and an Economics motto reshaped by who gets to make things. Published in 2012 by Chris Anderson, then editor-in-chief of Wired, the book argues that custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design is unlocking the same innovation model that drove the web, this time for physical manufacturing. Anderson describes how tools such as 3D printing and affordable electronics assembly let people without a major manufacturer's backing turn ideas into real products and businesses, and draws a parallel between the maker movement and the second Industrial Revolution of 1850 to the end of the First World War.