Hackers, Makers, and the Next Industrial Revolution
When, in November, the publisher Stewart Brand was asked about who carries the flag of counterculture today, he pointed to the maker movement. The maker era might not be upon us yet, but the maker movement has arrived. Many promoters of the maker movement believe that personal manufacturing will undermine the clout of larger corporations. It might even liberate labor in a way that the Arts and Crafts radicals hadn’t anticipated.
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