additive manufacturing

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

by Ray Kurzweil  · 14 Jul 2005  · 761pp  · 231,902 words

-manufacturing process in the range of ten cents to fifty cents per kilogram, regardless of whether the manufactured product were clothing, massively parallel supercomputers, or additional manufacturing systems.80 The real cost, of course, would be the value of the information describing each type of product—that is, the software that controls

Democratizing innovation

by Eric von Hippel  · 1 Apr 2005  · 220pp  · 73,451 words

Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success

by Dietrich Vollrath  · 6 Jan 2020  · 295pp  · 90,821 words

manufacturing has higher productivity growth than the average industry, at about 1.36%, a bigger value-added share for manufacturing would increase productivity growth. The additional manufacturing workers would raise it by 0.016% (.0136 times the difference between the shares 0.134 and 0.122). Now, to be thorough, we’d

The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

by Ray Kurzweil  · 25 Jun 2024

parts by stacking or depositing relatively flat layers and building them up into a three-dimensional shape. These techniques have come to be known as additive manufacturing, three-dimensional printing, or 3D printing. The most common types of 3D printers work somewhat like an ink-jet printer.[262] A typical ink-jet

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sampling of views from 3D-printing experts on trends for the industry, and photos showing improving resolution in manufactured feature sizes, see Michael Petch, “80 Additive Manufacturing Experts Predict the 3D Printing Trends to Watch in 2020,” 3DPrintingIndustry.com, January 15, 2020, https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/80

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-additive-manufacturing-experts-predict-the-3d-printing-trends-to-watch-in-2020-167177; Leo Gregurić, “The Smallest 3D Printed Things,” All3DP, January 30, 2019, https://all3dp.com/

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, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9oO6EiBt40; Sam Davies, “Nanofabrica Announces Commercial Launch of Micro-Level Resolution Additive Manufacturing Technology,” TCT Magazine, March 14, 2019, https://www.tctmagazine.com/additive-manufacturing-3d-printing-news/nanofabrica-micro-level-resolution-additive-manufacturing. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 270 For more on 3D-printed fabric, see Zachary Hay, “3D Printed

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, 29–30, 96–98 abstraction, 35–37 Abundance (Diamandis and Kotler), 112 academic tests, 52 accelerating returns. See law of accelerating returns Acemoğlu, Daron, 129 additive manufacturing. See 3D printing aeroponics, 180–81 Africa Ebola virus outbreak of 2014–2016, 272 electricity, 175 famine and GMOs, 284 poverty rate, 117, 141 After

Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

by Parag Khanna  · 18 Apr 2016  · 497pp  · 144,283 words

of Jobs (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). 3. Josh Tyrangiel, “Tim Cook’s Freshman Year: The Apple CEO Speaks,” Bloomberg Businessweek, Dec. 6, 2012. 4. However, additive manufacturing and the sharing economy together do cause tremendous domestic dislocation. The construction sector is not tradable, but it can increasingly be automated as entire homes

The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism

by Arun Sundararajan  · 12 May 2016  · 375pp  · 88,306 words

thus the same economics, that led to the consumerization of digital may reshape our everyday physical objects: the Internet of Things and the emergence of additive manufacturing. The Internet of Things In the not-so-distant future, every “thing” will have the potential to be digitized and networked. In an iconic example

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also expands. On-demand services of all kinds become more viable, more efficient, and more ubiquitous with the Internet of Things. 3-D Printing and Additive Manufacturing Until recently, if you wanted to get into the business of making and selling physical objects, you had to acquire the capabilities of manufacturing and

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physical material—wood, metal, heated resin—and removes portions of it to create the components of the eventual product, using tools, machines, or a mold. Additive manufacturing is the opposite. It starts with a design, and uses a “printer” to additively construct the physical object. How might this reshape the economy? Let

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emerge.9 As the University of Rochester professor Ravi Mantena forecasted in his 2004 doctoral dissertation at New York University, the coming of age of additive manufacturing could similarly radically alter the economics of many physical industries. Imagine, for example, you are looking for a new phone case. Right now, most of

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than physical objects. The need for wholesale distributors and traditional retailers diminishes. The economics of small-batch manufacturing by microentrepreneurs (who might then sell their additively manufactured craft through a marketplace like Etsy) improve dramatically. Decentralized Peer-to-Peer and the Blockchain In chapter 4, I discuss the emergence of a new

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its highly efficient logistics partners. Similarly, Uber and Lyft rely on systems that optimize their current pool of available drivers in real time. Thus, although additive-manufacturing technologies such as 3-D printers will continue to increase the fraction of physical products sold as pure digital information (as we discussed in chapter

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bound to see the emergence of centralized production facilities of different kinds, whether they be fleets of driverless Ubers or a maker space with different additive manufacturing capabilities, and we will then perhaps need to examine the extent to which the platform requires its providers to use its own centralized assets. A

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and towards a range of technology platforms—Uber, Lyft, Didi Kuaidi and Ola, as well as Apple, Google, and perhaps even Amazon. In parallel, the additive manufacturing revolution will change how artifacts are made, shifting more and more production into the crowd. The blockchain revolution may create new global exchange possibilities we

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platforms, 38–43, 45. See also Airbnb; Couchsurfing increased variety and consumption with, 121 rental market analysis, 125–130 Acemoglu, Daron, 144 Achamore House, 105 Additive manufacturing, 57–58 Adomavicius, Gedas, 112 Adverse selection, 139 Aggarwal, Bhavish, 116 Airbnb, 2, 3, 6, 29, 45, 48, 106, 139, 159, 197, 203. See also

Innovation and Its Enemies

by Calestous Juma  · 20 Mar 2017

the same way that advanced countries grapple with social concerns in new fields such as nanotechnology, robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles, synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and additive manufacturing (3D printing).8 Much of the public debate is intended to influence government policy on science, technology, and engineering. In this regard, the capacity of

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and technology advice in ensuring that the law can adequately reflect the characteristics of emerging technologies. An example of the tensions is the rise of additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, which is advancing faster than the law can catch up.61 One of the main legal challenges is the potential convergence of

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groups environmental movement, 14, 32 globalization and, 41 Grange movement, 103 pure foods movements, 24, 335n22 temperance (teetol) movement, 57, 63 Adam, Meldrum & Anderson, 155 Additive manufacturing (3D printing), 301, 306 Adoption of Bt technology, 244, 252 of coffee, 297 of disease-resistant wheat cultivars, 228 of innovation, 11, 124 of tractors

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of Economic Development (Schumpeter), 16, 293 Thin-film cells (in solar photovoltaics), 200 Thomson, Elihu, 162, 163 Thomson-Houston electrical company, 162, 169 3D printing (additive manufacturing), 301, 306 Tillyard, Arthur, 58 Time, technological innovation and, 64–65 “Tin Clad Fire Doors” (Underwriters Laboratories), 184 Tissue engineering, 300 Tobacco, protectionist arguments against

The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning With the Myth of the Good Billionaire

by Tim Schwab  · 13 Nov 2023  · 618pp  · 179,407 words

Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic

by Scott Gottlieb  · 20 Sep 2021

the nation’s insulin supply. So the FDA worked closely with the drug manufacturer to help support the company in its efforts to build an additional manufacturing facility. But that work to build redundant manufacturing sites for key medicines was a limited affair, and ultimately, attention faded and the production of a

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee  · 20 Jan 2014  · 339pp  · 88,732 words

of just putting ink on paper, they are making complicated three-dimensional parts out of plastic, metal, and other materials. 3D printing, also sometimes called “additive manufacturing,” takes advantage of the way computer printers work: they deposit a very thin layer of material (ink, traditionally) on a base (paper) in a pattern

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out of plastic, but 3D printing has expanded into metals as well. Autodesk CEO Carl Bass is part of the large and growing community of additive manufacturing hobbyists and tinkerers. During our tour of his company’s gallery, a showcase of all the products and projects enabled by Autodesk software, he showed

Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization

by K. Eric Drexler  · 6 May 2013  · 445pp  · 105,255 words

The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth Is Unattainable and the Global Economy Is in Peril

by Satyajit Das  · 9 Feb 2016  · 327pp  · 90,542 words

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by Jeremy Rifkin  · 31 Mar 2014  · 565pp  · 151,129 words

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by Rana Foroohar  · 16 May 2016  · 515pp  · 132,295 words

Frugal Innovation: How to Do Better With Less

by Jaideep Prabhu Navi Radjou  · 15 Feb 2015  · 400pp  · 88,647 words

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler  · 3 Feb 2015  · 368pp  · 96,825 words

Industry 4.0: The Industrial Internet of Things

by Alasdair Gilchrist  · 27 Jun 2016

Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization

by Vaclav Smil  · 16 Dec 2013  · 396pp  · 117,897 words

Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success

by Scott Davis, Carter Copeland and Rob Wertheimer  · 13 Jul 2020  · 372pp  · 101,678 words

Competition Demystified

by Bruce C. Greenwald  · 31 Aug 2016  · 482pp  · 125,973 words

The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization

by Richard Baldwin  · 14 Nov 2016  · 606pp  · 87,358 words

The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 27 Sep 2011  · 443pp  · 112,800 words

Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It

by Azeem Azhar  · 6 Sep 2021  · 447pp  · 111,991 words

The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World

by Anu Bradford  · 14 Sep 2020  · 696pp  · 184,001 words

Food Allergy: Adverse Reactions to Foods and Food Additives

by Dean D. Metcalfe  · 15 Dec 2008  · 623pp  · 448,848 words

Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing

by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman  · 20 Nov 2012  · 307pp  · 92,165 words

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

by Marc Goodman  · 24 Feb 2015  · 677pp  · 206,548 words

The Origins of Efficiency

by Brian Potter  · 15 Feb 2025  · 474pp  · 134,246 words

The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be

by Moises Naim  · 5 Mar 2013  · 474pp  · 120,801 words

Energy and Civilization: A History

by Vaclav Smil  · 11 May 2017

The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals

by Michael Pollan  · 15 Dec 2006  · 467pp  · 503 words

The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low

by Richard Jurek  · 2 Dec 2019  · 431pp  · 118,074 words

Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane

by Brett King  · 5 May 2016  · 385pp  · 111,113 words

Free Money for All: A Basic Income Guarantee Solution for the Twenty-First Century

by Mark Walker  · 29 Nov 2015

The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler  · 28 Jan 2020  · 501pp  · 114,888 words

The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters

by Diane Coyle  · 15 Apr 2025  · 321pp  · 112,477 words

Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age

by Eric Berger  · 23 Sep 2024  · 375pp  · 113,230 words

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

by Anu Bradford  · 25 Sep 2023  · 898pp  · 236,779 words

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

by Thomas L. Friedman  · 22 Nov 2016  · 602pp  · 177,874 words

The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley  · 10 Jun 2013

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab  · 7 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives

by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen  · 22 Apr 2013  · 525pp  · 116,295 words

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

by Benjamin H. Bratton  · 19 Feb 2016  · 903pp  · 235,753 words

Automation and the Future of Work

by Aaron Benanav  · 3 Nov 2020  · 175pp  · 45,815 words

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson  · 26 Jun 2017  · 472pp  · 117,093 words

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams  · 1 Oct 2015  · 357pp  · 95,986 words

The Great Fragmentation: And Why the Future of All Business Is Small

by Steve Sammartino  · 25 Jun 2014  · 247pp  · 81,135 words

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

by Martin Ford  · 4 May 2015  · 484pp  · 104,873 words

Makers at Work: Folks Reinventing the World One Object or Idea at a Time

by Steven Osborn  · 17 Sep 2013  · 310pp  · 34,482 words

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

by Klaus Schwab  · 11 Jan 2016  · 179pp  · 43,441 words

No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

by Richard Dobbs and James Manyika  · 12 May 2015  · 389pp  · 87,758 words

The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century

by Ronald Bailey  · 20 Jul 2015  · 417pp  · 109,367 words

What Would the Great Economists Do?: How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems

by Linda Yueh  · 4 Jun 2018  · 453pp  · 117,893 words

The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today

by Linda Yueh  · 15 Mar 2018  · 374pp  · 113,126 words

The Four: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Divided and Conquered the World

by Scott Galloway  · 2 Oct 2017  · 305pp  · 79,303 words

The Switch: How Solar, Storage and New Tech Means Cheap Power for All

by Chris Goodall  · 6 Jul 2016  · 271pp  · 79,367 words

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma

by Mustafa Suleyman  · 4 Sep 2023  · 444pp  · 117,770 words

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by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham  · 27 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism

by Calum Chace  · 17 Jul 2016  · 477pp  · 75,408 words

Mysteries of the Mall: And Other Essays

by Witold Rybczynski  · 7 Sep 2015  · 342pp  · 90,734 words

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by Jeff Booth  · 14 Jan 2020  · 180pp  · 55,805 words

99%: Mass Impoverishment and How We Can End It

by Mark Thomas  · 7 Aug 2019  · 286pp  · 79,305 words

Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos and the Trillion-Dollar Space Race

by Christian Davenport  · 6 Sep 2025  · 441pp  · 127,950 words

The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts

by Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind  · 24 Aug 2015  · 742pp  · 137,937 words

Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

by Diane Coyle  · 11 Oct 2021  · 305pp  · 75,697 words

Bank 3.0: Why Banking Is No Longer Somewhere You Go but Something You Do

by Brett King  · 26 Dec 2012  · 382pp  · 120,064 words

What's Wrong With Economics: A Primer for the Perplexed

by Robert Skidelsky  · 3 Mar 2020  · 290pp  · 76,216 words

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by Rod Pyle  · 2 Jan 2019  · 352pp  · 87,930 words

Invention: A Life

by James Dyson  · 6 Sep 2021  · 312pp  · 108,194 words

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff

by Fred Pearce  · 30 Sep 2009  · 407pp  · 121,458 words

Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today's Business While Creating the Future

by Scott D. Anthony and Mark W. Johnson  · 27 Mar 2017  · 293pp  · 78,439 words

The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us

by Diane Ackerman  · 9 Sep 2014  · 380pp  · 104,841 words

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech

by Jamie Susskind  · 3 Sep 2018  · 533pp

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by Deyan Sudjic  · 17 Feb 2015  · 335pp  · 111,405 words

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

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by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey  · 27 Feb 2018  · 348pp  · 97,277 words

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by Brad Jacobs  · 15 Feb 2024  · 168pp  · 46,127 words

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