Transcription of A third industrial revolution - MIT
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Apr 21st 2012 | from the print editionSpecial report: Manufacturing and innovationIn this special reportA third industrial revolutionBack to making stuffThe boomerang effectForging aheadSolid printLayer by layerAll together nowMaking the futureSources & acknowledgementsReprintsA third industrial revolutionAs manufacturing goes digital, it will change out of allrecognition, says Paul Markillie. And some of the businessof making things will return to rich countriesOUTSIDETHESPRAWLING Frankfurt Messe, home of innumerable German trade fairs, a third industrial revolution | The of 54/19/12 2:13 PMstands the Hammering Man , a 21-metre kinetic statue that steadilyraises and lowers its arm to bash a piece of metal with a Borofsky, the artist who built it, says it is a celebration
sometimes it will not be machines doing the making, but micro-organisms that have been genetically engineered for the task. Everything in the factories of the future will be run by smarter software. Digitisation in manufacturing will have a disruptive effect every bit as big as in other industries that have gone digital, such as office
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