3-D printing is just one of the technological changes that are spreading across the world, and, to those who have been keeping up, has led to a manufacturing renaissance in the US, as production leaves China to go back to America.
Chris Anderson has written a reasonably good overview of this, in his latest book, "Makers: The New Industrial Revolution", and, while the next decade will bring yet more surprises, he has a point. To cut a long story short, people using 3-D manufacturing can provide custom solutions and supply-on-demand, while the larger companies will continue to churn out products that require giant economies of scale. While this revolution will destroy jobs, it will create new ones.
Since there is a new industrial revolution happening, how is that affecting film-making?
Chris Anderson has written a reasonably good overview of this, in his latest book, "Makers: The New Industrial Revolution", and, while the next decade will bring yet more surprises, he has a point. To cut a long story short, people using 3-D manufacturing can provide custom solutions and supply-on-demand, while the larger companies will continue to churn out products that require giant economies of scale. While this revolution will destroy jobs, it will create new ones.
Since there is a new industrial revolution happening, how is that affecting film-making?