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New Industrial Future? - 3d Printing Reconfiguring of Production, Distribution, Consumption

English · Hardback

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Zusatztext 3D printing has become emblematic for deep-seated! ambivalent! and strange changes in our societies. Increasingly accessible! and increasingly powerful! it is unclear whose digital fabrications will be served by this potentially ubiquitous technology. Will it be manufacturers! hackers! makers! the military! peer-producers! or entirely new social figures? And what about relations between capital! labour! consumption and environment? Birtchnell and Urry provide a clear-sighted and measured analysis into these issues. Drawing upon the historical! geographic and social relations shaping the development of this technology! their book navigates some of the futures open to us! and makes clear the social choices involved right now.- Adrian Smith! Professor of Technology & Society! University of Sussex! UK Informationen zum Autor Thomas Birtchnell is a Senior Lecturer in Geography and Sustainable Communities at the University of Wollongong, Australia. John Urry is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Institute for Social Futures, Lancaster University, UK Klappentext A New Industrial Future? approaches the revolution of printing in 3D from a socially and culturally informed perspective, avoiding media hyperbole and technological determinism. Zusammenfassung A New Industrial Future? approaches the revolution of printing in 3D from a socially and culturally informed perspective, avoiding media hyperbole and technological determinism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Thinking Additively A Brief History of 3D Printing The 3D System Resources Transitions Futurity Scenarios

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