Designing Reality: How to Survive and Thrive in the Third Digital Revolution
Autor Neil Gershenfeld, Alan Gershenfeld, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfelden Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 noi 2017
That's the promise, and peril, of the third digital revolution, where anyone will be able to make (almost) anything
Two digital revolutions--computing and communication--have radically transformed our economy and lives. A third digital revolution is here: fabrication. Today's 3D printers are only the start of a trend, accelerating exponentially, to turn data into objects: Neil Gershenfeld and his collaborators ultimately aim to create a universal replicator straight out of Star Trek. While digital fabrication promises us self-sufficient cities and the ability to make (almost) anything, it could also lead to massive inequality. The first two digital revolutions caught most of the world flat-footed, thanks to Designing Reality that won't be true this time.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780465093472
ISBN-10: 0465093477
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 154 x 243 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
ISBN-10: 0465093477
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 154 x 243 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
Notă biografică
Neil Gershenfeld has been called the intellectual father of the maker movement. He leads MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, and is the founder of the global network of over 1,000 community fab labs.
Alan Gershenfeld is president of E-Line Media and former chairman of Games for Change. He is currently working with the Center for Bits and Atoms and Fab Foundation on a DARPA funded game to fire the imagination of a generation around the future of digital fabrication.
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld is a professor at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and former president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association. He is a pioneer in high performance work systems and has led U.S. and global mapping of stakeholder alignment around digital fabrication.
Recenzii
"Designing Reality is more than a deep look into the future of making things, it's a sobering (yet entertaining) reflection on how we will need to design society to accommodate the wholesale changes that these technologies are certain to bring. The Gershenfelds have fused their talents to provide a clear picture of how digital materials will come to pass, while addressing the needed transformation in the social sciences if we are to avoid uneven distribution of the benefits. The book offers a highly probable account of a future where error-correcting self-assembly will allow anyone to make (almost) anything."—James A. Warren, Physicist and Director of the Materials Genome Program
"InDesigning Reality, the brothers Gershenfeld have provided a compelling roadmap for how accelerating technology will merge the digital and physical worlds (bits and atoms) and drive the next stage in our evolution as a species."—Ray Kurzweil,Inventor, Author and Futurist, author of The Singularity is Near and How to Create a Mind
"If the last 70+ years have told the story of atoms converted into bits, then the next will tell the story of bits being turned back into atoms. The members of the Gershenfeld troika arm-wrestle their way through alternative future scenarios that highlight the possibilities and the challenges that computer-based fabrication offer. One could not ask for a better point-counter-point exploration of the Third Digital Revolution."—Vint Cerf,VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
"Designing Realityis an invitation and roadmap for all of us to bring our talent, passion, and communities to proactively shape our shared future. At the core of the Fab movement is a network of humans working together in radical collaboration from every corner of the planet, growing creative confidence in themselves and others. Challenges abound today, as do opportunities; our author-trio invite us all into the mix, because if we include everyone, we can fix (nearly) everything. Opt-in -- yourself, your family, your community."—Megan J. Smith and Puneet Kaur Ahira,
"Bhutan's biggest constraint in promoting Gross National Happiness (GNH), our development philosophy, is its heavy reliance on imports at the end of long supply chains.Designing Realityshows that digital fabrication can overcome this constraint by allowing us to fabricate locally while thinking globally and being true to the principles of GNH. We look forward to Bhutan becoming not just a Fab City, but a Fab Country."—Tshering Tobgay,Prime Minister of Bhutan
—Congressman
Bill
Foster,
Ph.D.
"In this mind-altering book, the Gershenfelds envision a future of making things that's not dominated by big factories and powerful companies. Instead, it's centered around local innovators using powerful tools to design and build the realities they want. If this sounds good to you, here's the blueprint for making it happen."—Andrew McAfee,MIT Scientist and co-author of The Second Machine Age
"Ordinary people can now create objects with almost arbitrary levels of complexity, in large part because of the Gershenfelds' insights and leadership.Designing Realityis a must-read for anyone who wants to understand this revolution and its implications."—Erik Brynjolfsson,Director MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and co-author of The Second Machine Age and Machine, Platform, Crowd
"InDesigning Reality, the brothers Gershenfeld have provided a compelling roadmap for how accelerating technology will merge the digital and physical worlds (bits and atoms) and drive the next stage in our evolution as a species."—Ray Kurzweil,Inventor, Author and Futurist, author of The Singularity is Near and How to Create a Mind
"If the last 70+ years have told the story of atoms converted into bits, then the next will tell the story of bits being turned back into atoms. The members of the Gershenfeld troika arm-wrestle their way through alternative future scenarios that highlight the possibilities and the challenges that computer-based fabrication offer. One could not ask for a better point-counter-point exploration of the Third Digital Revolution."—Vint Cerf,VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
"Designing
Realityis
nothing
less
than
a
full-blown
manifesto
for
ushering
in
the
age
of
digital
fabrication,
the
third
leg
of
the
digital
revolution.
Anchoring
the
authors'
comprehensive
vision
is
the
exponential
growth
of
fab
labs,
a
globally
extant
collection
of
now
over
1000
digital
fabrication
testbeds.
Codifying
the
lessons
learned
from
more
than
a
decade
of
success
and
failure,
they
powerfully
advocate
for
fab
labs
as
a
model
for
accelerating
the
growth
of
and
universal
access
to
digital
fabrication
for
all
humanity."
—Justin
Rattner,Chief
Technology
Officer,
Intel
Corporation
(retired)"Designing Realityis an invitation and roadmap for all of us to bring our talent, passion, and communities to proactively shape our shared future. At the core of the Fab movement is a network of humans working together in radical collaboration from every corner of the planet, growing creative confidence in themselves and others. Challenges abound today, as do opportunities; our author-trio invite us all into the mix, because if we include everyone, we can fix (nearly) everything. Opt-in -- yourself, your family, your community."—Megan J. Smith and Puneet Kaur Ahira,
- 3rd U.S. Chief Technology Officer, Entrepreneur, Engineer; Founder & CEO at shift7
- Co-Founder & Chief Architect at shift7; former White House, Google, Goldman Sachs
"Bhutan's biggest constraint in promoting Gross National Happiness (GNH), our development philosophy, is its heavy reliance on imports at the end of long supply chains.Designing Realityshows that digital fabrication can overcome this constraint by allowing us to fabricate locally while thinking globally and being true to the principles of GNH. We look forward to Bhutan becoming not just a Fab City, but a Fab Country."—Tshering Tobgay,Prime Minister of Bhutan
"Providing
universal
access
to
digital
fabrication
is
one
of
the
most
important
challenges
and
opportunities
of
our
time.Designing
Realityis
a
manual
describing
what
it
is,
why
it
is
important,
and
how
to
get
there."
"In this mind-altering book, the Gershenfelds envision a future of making things that's not dominated by big factories and powerful companies. Instead, it's centered around local innovators using powerful tools to design and build the realities they want. If this sounds good to you, here's the blueprint for making it happen."—Andrew McAfee,MIT Scientist and co-author of The Second Machine Age
"Ordinary people can now create objects with almost arbitrary levels of complexity, in large part because of the Gershenfelds' insights and leadership.Designing Realityis a must-read for anyone who wants to understand this revolution and its implications."—Erik Brynjolfsson,Director MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and co-author of The Second Machine Age and Machine, Platform, Crowd
Descriere
That's the promise, and peril, of the third digital revolution, where anyone will be able to make (almost) anything
Two digital revolutions--computing and communication--have radically transformed our economy and lives. A third digital revolution is here: fabrication. Today's 3D printers are only the start of a trend, accelerating exponentially, to turn data into objects: Neil Gershenfeld and his collaborators ultimately aim to create a universal replicator straight out of Star Trek. While digital fabrication promises us self-sufficient cities and the ability to make (almost) anything, it could also lead to massive inequality. The first two digital revolutions caught most of the world flat-footed, thanks to Designing Reality that won't be true this time.