Makers: The New Industrial Revolution
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 Hardcover edition | |
| Author | Chris Anderson |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | New industrial revolution |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Crown Business |
Publication date | October 2, 2012 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print, e-book, audiobook |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 978-0307720955 |
| Preceded by | Free |
| Followed by | TBA |
Makers: The New Industrial Revolution is the third book written by Chris Anderson, Editor in chief of Wired magazine. The book was published on October 2, 2012, by Crown Business.[1] He is also the author of The Long Tail, published in 2006. Makers focuses on a new industrial revolution as modern entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop.[2][3]
The book is largely based on his 2010 article, "In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits".[4] The ideas he portrayed, such as crowdsourcing of ideas, utilization of available lower-cost design and manufacturing tools, and reviewing options to outsource capital-intensive manufacturing were highlighted in the February 2010 Harvard Business Review article, "From Do It Yourself to Do It Together".[5]