Can we talk about the future of manufacturing and hoverboards?
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Replying to @starsandrobots
Widely noted: hoverboards are the first of a type of product to break through from manufacturers directly to consumers, without brand/distro
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Replying to @starsandrobots
Also as per Planet Money's Hoverboard episode —http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/11/27/457404184/episode-666-the-hoverboard-life …
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Replying to @starsandrobots
One thing that appears to have driven this is the availability & spread of sharing design files amongst mfgs, for physical goods.
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Replying to @starsandrobots
(People like Saul Griffith have been on this for years — https://books.google.com/books?id=rHdkDiUMpaUC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&dq=saul+griffith+bicycle+waterjet&source=bl&ots=B0-TuWKtTr&sig=o2X-5hHAOjP65mwoVf7o3rUCbsw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj10aKizcbKAhVR5mMKHRacBnMQ6AEIHDAA … eg: waterjettable bike, a flat-pack, email-able bike frame)
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Replying to @starsandrobots
So why does the US/West seem so obsessive about desktop fabrication? Where are my licensable and forkable plans for cell phone designs?
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Replying to @starsandrobots
Anyway I want to say that instead of discussing Shanzai only in fear and disgust, it might be time to look at what makes it so effective
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And to ask why we don't have any ourselves.
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