“this is the inception of an industrial revolution”

Julgo que é a primeira vez que leio outra pessoa sobre esta possibilidade, assim, com esta ênfase.
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Em "Why the Real World Will Matter More in 2014":

"you see a distinct, welcome trend away from screens and toward the real world.
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this tilt toward technology in the real world will create value in entrepreneurship and improvements in everyday life will be literally seen and felt.
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many of us are beginning to hear stories about everyday consumer uses for 3D scanners and printers. With these applications we see a vanishing distance—literal and cognitive—between manufacturing and consumer need. From the new vantage point of the burgeoning “maker movement,” we perceive ourselves as a one-person supply chain: in-shoring happens right in our own basement.
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 “this is the inception of an industrial revolution.”"

A previsão há muito feita neste blogue de uma revolução naquilo a que chamamos emprego, naquilo a que chamamos supply-chain, naquilo a que chamamos "democratização" da produção. Conseguem imaginar as consequências disto... as peças de dominó mais distantes, a nível de empregos, educação, impostos, relações entre pessoas, modas, comércio, empreendedorismo, estatísticas, ...?
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Fiz logo a conexão com esta outra leitura de hoje "Business's Worst Nightmare: Big Bang Disruption" e com "Thousands of the World's Internet-Connected Things in One Place"

Outra perspectiva interessante do artigo referido inicialmente, da qual nunca tomei consciência do que significava, embora a referisse várias vezes nesta série:

"[wearables] offers the kind of useful feedback once available only to world-class athletes at a sports lab with a team of researchers and coaches. Now anyone can now see things with an expert eye, though autonomously and at a fraction of the cost."