Makers : The new industrial revolution

"3D printers, laser cutters, open source software and hardware are now within everyone's reach and making objects, at home or at the office, will quickly become as common as editing photos... Will the democratization of production tools trigger a new industrial revolution, driven by the Makers? This is the point of view defended by Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired and author of the worldwide bestseller The Long Tail, who explains here the characteristics of this growing movement: Makers use digital tools to create new products and make prototypes; Thanks to open source, they share their ideas and knowledge, thus acquiring a huge collective knowledge; Their initiatives go beyond the stage of a hobby and now lead to real companies, already present in the economic fabric.
The Makers are indeed industrializing the DIY (Do It Yourself) spirit, in a movement both artisanal and innovative, high-tech and low-cost. And today, more than ever, every inventor is now also a potential entrepreneur. A visionary, yet pragmatic, Chris Anderson draws on numerous examples such as MakerBot 3D printers, Arduino open source computer boards and TechLab self-fabrication stores.
Continuing his committed reflection on the digital economy, he deciphers this phenomenon that he himself calls "the passage from bits to atoms" or "the long tail of objects".