As well as looking at what's happening to large scale manufacturing, we should also be keeping an eye out at manufacturing at the other end of the spectrum.
Via the O'Reilly Radar RSS Feed (which seems to have different content compared to the O'Reilly Radar Web Site) comes a link to a post called Laptops and Looms by Paul Miller. It's a writeup about a private conference on "creating and supporting digital technologies to start a renaissance of making things". It's well worth the read, as is the article it links to on Wired UK by Russell M Davies - "Make things, not media platforms".
I'm currently withholding judgment on what the impact of maker culture is going to be. I'm torn between it becoming a major part of all our lives and it never becoming more than a drop in the ocean providing jobs for a few highly talented craftsmen. The truth is probably somewhere in between.
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