{"id":17815,"date":"2012-11-17T12:46:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T17:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17815"},"modified":"2012-11-17T12:46:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T17:46:58","slug":"3d-printing-will-be-bigger-than-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/11\/17\/3d-printing-will-be-bigger-than-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;3D printing will be bigger than the web&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m not quite willing to go as far as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/chris-anderson-why-i-left-wired-3d-printing-will-be-bigger-than-the-web-7000007535\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Anderson<\/a> (quoted above), I do think 3D printing is going to be a fantastic development in our very-near future:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chris Anderson has exited one of the top jobs in publishing &mdash; Editor-in-Chief of <em>Wired<\/em> magazine &mdash; to pursue the life of an entrepreneur, making a big bet that 3D printers represent a massive new phase of the industrial revolution.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke at a <em>Wired<\/em> &#8220;Culturazzi&#8221; event, at the Marriott Union Square and to sign copies of his latest book: <em>Makers: The New Industrial Revolution<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Anderson is always an excellent speaker and his talk covered the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, which he picked out as the invention of the Spinning Jenny in 1764 &mdash; a hand powered machine for spinning yarn.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d have pinned the start of the Industrial Revolution to the invention of the steam engine and its ability to power large numbers of machines thus enabling the first factories &mdash; which represented aggregated labor energy. Scale makes factories viable.<\/p>\n<p>But I can see why Mr Anderson would favor the Spinning Jenny as it was a high-tech machine that was kept in a home &mdash; just as 3D printers are home based, completing a neat cycle of history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m not quite willing to go as far as Chris Anderson (quoted above), I do think 3D printing is going to be a fantastic development in our very-near future: Chris Anderson has exited one of the top jobs in publishing &mdash; Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine &mdash; to pursue the life of an entrepreneur, making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,15],"tags":[679,140,174,859,513],"class_list":["post-17815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-technology","tag-3dprinting","tag-design","tag-innovation","tag-manufacturing","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Dl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17816,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815\/revisions\/17816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}