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新工业革命带来的机遇

There has been a revival in the US of individual craft manufacture. Make magazine and its Maker Faires have helped create a community of entrepreneurs learning and building, whether from a garage or in TechShops, a membership chain of open-access DIY workshops. They offer training and tools and help participants construct anything from a prototype to finished items.

个体技术制造活动已在美国复兴。在《Make》杂志及其举办的Maker Faire聚会推动下，美国已经形成了一个创业者学习与开发的圈子，不管是来自车库还是在TechShop上，TechShop是一种会员制的开放DIY工坊。他们提供培训和工具，并帮助参与者制造从原型到成品的任何东西。

In June I attended Deutsche Bank’s Manufacturing Forum to hear insights about the business of making things. One point became obvious: a manufacturing revival will not solve the west’s problem of unemployment. Modern plants use robots and increasingly few workers and run day and night, 365 days a year. Even Asian electronics powerhouse Flextronics plans to buy more than 1m robots in the coming years. Indeed, many of the manufacturing jobs that have disappeared in the advanced economies have done so thanks to productivity improvements, not offshoring. The jobs that new factories do create will be highly skilled roles. Manufacturers want recruits trained in “Stem subjects – science, technology, engineering and maths – which is why the recent surge in popularity of these “hard subjects is such great news.