"Two future forces, one mostly social, one mostly technological, are intersecting to transform how goods, services, and experiences—the "stuff" of our world—will be designed, manufactured, and distributed over the next decade. An emerging do-it-yourself culture of "makers" is boldly voiding warranties to tweak, hack, and customize the products they buy. And what they can't purchase, they build from scratch. Meanwhile, flexible manufacturing technologies on the horizon will change fabrication from massive and centralized to lightweight and ad hoc. These trends sit atop a platform of grassroots economics—new market structures developing online that embody a shift from stores and sales to communities and connections."
Download the "Future of Making" map (from the INSTITUTE OF THE FUTURE) at: http://www.iftf.org/system/files/deliverables/SR-1154+TH+2008+Maker+Map.pdf -- { Itamar Medeiros } Information Designer designing clear, understandable communication by caring to structure, context, and presentation of data and information mobile ::: +86 13671503252 website ::: http://designative.info/ aim ::: itamarlmedeiros skype ::: designative ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
