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Intelligence Squared

Chris Anderson on the Democratisation of Manufacturing, Design and Technology

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4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2013

⏱️ 83 minutes

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In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is about to be unleashed... Check out today's Advent podcast where Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. — We’d love to hear your feedback and what you think we should talk about next, who we should have on and what our future debates should be.  Send us an email or voice note with your thoughts to podcasts@intelligencesquared.com or Tweet us @intelligence2.  And if you’d like to support our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations, as well as ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content, early access and much more, become a supporter of Intelligence Squared.. Just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Thank you for downloading this Intelligence Squared podcast.

1:01.0

For more information on our debates, talks and discussions,

1:04.8

visit intelligent square.com. Chris Anderson on the democratization of

1:09.5

manufacturing, design and technology. This talk took place at London's Roy institution on the 19th of September 2012.

1:17.0

First of all, my thanks to Intelligence Square for having me. It's such a privilege to be here. I feel like all the great lectures have had like these great show and tells these these presentations

1:27.6

You know electrostatic forces and laughing gas and you know mechanical displays of the universe and I feel sort of underarmed here.

1:36.4

But I'll do my best to live up to the history here. I think it's actually quite quite poignant and

1:45.1

right that you know I we launched this book in in the UK and that we're speaking here in this room because, you know, in a sense, the ability for technology to change the world really originates here, you know, with the beginnings of mechanization and steam and you know the first factories and

2:08.8

all that.

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