[EAS] The Third Industrial Revolution

[Peter J. Kindlmann]

Dear Colleagues -

http://www.economist.com/node/21552901
Note the header "Special report: Manufacturing and innovation" -- 
that's a drop-down menu that gets you to the other sections of the 
report.

Here is another of those interesting reports on important but 
underappreciated topics for which I like The Economist. This about 
the advances in additive manufacturing, building up parts or 
prototypes by two- and three-dimensional "printing." Cars won't be 
manufactured that way anytime soon, but it is a fascinating enabler 
for entrepreneurs on smaller scales.

And a related fascinating enabler, for entrepreneurial funding, is Kickstarter:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/technology/kickstarter-sets-off-financing-rush-for-a-watch-not-yet-made.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120501

There are indeed the stirrings of a new kind of industrial revolution.

     --PJK