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新工业革命带来的机遇

Two new books make this point: first, the Financial Times’s Peter Marsh in his excellent book The New Industrial Revolution; and second, Chris Anderson, of The Long Tail fame, in his new title, Makers . They argue that mass production is giving way to customisation, combined with localism, and the emergence of “micro-multinationals.

两本新书提出了这一观点：首先是英国《金融时报》编辑彼得·马什(Peter Marsh)的精彩著作《新工业革命》(The New Industrial Revolution)；其次是因《长尾理论》(The Long Tail)一书而出名的克里斯·安德森(Chris Anderson)的新书《创客》(Makers)。他们指出，大规模生产正让位于定制生产、本土主义以及“微型跨国公司的兴起。

Digital manufacturing employs computers and a process called stereolithography to make products using layers of either powdered or molten plastic or metal, in what is described as “additive manufacturing. I have seen these devices in action and they are impressive. These machines will steadily fall in price, while increasing in sophistication and availability as demand rises. Personal fabrication in the garden shed of all sorts of objects may be commonplace in a few years’ time.

“数字化制造利用电脑和一种被称为“立体平板印刷的流程，使用多层的材料——粉末状或熔化的塑料或者金属——来制造产品，这被称为“添加制造技术(additive manufacturing)。我看到过这些机器的运转，令人印象深刻。这些机器的价格将会稳步下跌，随着需求的上升，产品复杂程度会更高，应用也会更为广泛。若干年后，在自家花园的棚子里加工制造各种各样的物品可能成为一种常见景象。

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