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A large group of people all wanting the same item to be made could get together and send the details of the design to a large-scale contract manufacturing and assembly company to make use of specialist facilities and economies of scale.
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A group of people all wanting the same item to be made could get together and send the details of the design to a large-scale contract manufacturing and assembly company to make use of specialist facilities and economies of scale.
  
 
This might be a 'base item' and each individual then customises and finishes off the product according to their tastes. The item could be anything from a car, a mobile phone, a computer or an entirely new machine or device that has only recently been thought up...
 
This might be a 'base item' and each individual then customises and finishes off the product according to their tastes. The item could be anything from a car, a mobile phone, a computer or an entirely new machine or device that has only recently been thought up...
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See also Wired article "[http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01/ff_newrevolution/all/1 In the Next industrial revolution, atoms are the new bits]". {{film icon}} [http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid56328629001?bclid=10175001001&bctid=56013186001 Accompanying video]
  
 
See also [http://www.joydevivre.org Joy de vivre] concept.
 
See also [http://www.joydevivre.org Joy de vivre] concept.
  
At some stage open-source systems will likely compete with this type of manufacturing, bypassing the commercial aspect, although it makes some interesting large-scale things possible right now.
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At some stage open-source systems will likely compete with this type of manufacturing too, bypassing the commercial aspect - however it makes some interesting large-scale things possible right now.

Latest revision as of 20:12, 7 February 2010

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A group of people all wanting the same item to be made could get together and send the details of the design to a large-scale contract manufacturing and assembly company to make use of specialist facilities and economies of scale.

This might be a 'base item' and each individual then customises and finishes off the product according to their tastes. The item could be anything from a car, a mobile phone, a computer or an entirely new machine or device that has only recently been thought up...

See also Wired article "In the Next industrial revolution, atoms are the new bits". Film_icon.png Accompanying video

See also Joy de vivre concept.

At some stage open-source systems will likely compete with this type of manufacturing too, bypassing the commercial aspect - however it makes some interesting large-scale things possible right now.