Notes
1. http://www.citibank.com/transactionservices/home/docs/the_new_ digital_economy.pdf
One of them was called REM, and started at the same time as the “other” REM. For an amusing story on how the two bands resolved who would get the name (short form: a battle of the bands, which we resoundingly lost.
We emerged called “Egoslavia”), you can read my post here: http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2006/07/my_new_wave _hai.html.2. Cory Doctorow, Makers (Tor Books, 2009).
3. http://www.engadget.com/2011/ll/12/shanghai-science-and-tech nology-commission-proposes-100-innovat/
4. http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/yl2/m02/i07/s02
5. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304223804576444 042827007476.html
6. http://makerspace.com/2012/01/16/darpa-mentor-award-to-bring -making-to-education/#more-43
7. As you’ll see throughout this book, Γm not just an observer in this movement, Γm also a participant. Along with Ç-D Robotics, which I co-founded, Γve worked with Autodesk, Ponoko, and others to help steer this evolution, sometimes as a member of the company’s advisory board. This book is built on my experience at the front lines, and although I’ve endeavored to use journalistic standards of reporting, research, and fact-checking, I don’t pretend to be impartial. This is a future I believe in, and Γm one of many working to build it.
8. http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/2011-the-stats
9. http://www.businessinsider.com/kickstarter-on-track-to-generate -300-million-in-2012-funding-2012-4
10. http://www.crunchbase.com/
11. http://www.wired.eom/epicenter/2011/10/jobs/all/l
12. Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011, Kindle Edition), Kindle locations 1252-1264.
13. William Rosen, “The Most Powerful Idea in the World” (New York: Random House, 2010), 214.
14. http://apps.business.ualberta.ca/rfield/lifeexpectancy.htm
15.
Frangois Crouzet, ThelndustrialRevolution in National Context: Europe and the USA. (Cambridge, UK: CambridgeUniversityPress, 1996).16. http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06Symbol>/08/a-brief-history -of-the-corporation-1600-to-2100/
17. http://www.historywithmrgreen.com/page7/assets/The%20Industrial %20Revolution%20Cottage%20Industry%20and%twentiethe%20 Factory%20System.pdf
18. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/30/business/plug-is-pulled-on -heathkits-ending-a-do-it-yourself-era.html
19. Michael J. Piore and Charles F. Sabel, The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity (NewYork: Basic Books, 1984).
20. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/adam-davidson -craft-business.html
21. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105774081100 0829
22. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid = 12470
23. Neil Gershenfeld, Fab: The ComingRevolution on Your Desktop (New York: Basic Books, 2005).
24. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/the-past -present-and-future-of-3-d-printing∕2011∕08∕21∕gIQAg4fJZJ _story.html
25. http://www.forbes.com/sites/richkarlgaard/2011/06/23/3d-printing -will-revive-american-manufacturing/
26. http://investor.cafepress.com/secfiling.cfmPfilingID = 1193125-12 -135260δcCIK=1117733
27. http://www.slideshare.net/adafruit/hope2010-4790096
28. http://www.americanheritage.com/events/articles/Web/20070709 -windshield-wiper-robert-kearns.shtml
29. Symbol>http√∕www.washingtonpost.com∕wp-dyn∕articles∕a54564 -2005feb25.html
30. http://www.dieselpowermag.com/features/1005dp_local_motors _rally_fighter/
31. Symbol>httpr∕∕www.meyersmanx.com/pdf-files/Meyers_Manxter2.pdf
32. http://www.jstor.org/pss/2626876
33. http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnwl.html
34. As an aside, the fact that so much of the team is from Tijuana is worth noting. What Γve learned, now that Γve seen the city through the eyes of its young entrepreneurial generation, is that it’s much more a high-tech manufacturing zone (almost all of the flat-screen TVs we buy are made there) than the drug battleground or tequila drinking strip cemented in many American’s imagination.
The kids growing up in “TJ” over the past few decades are part of the California extended tech corridor, which stretches from San Francisco to San Diego. They have access to all the technology that’s twenty minutes across the border in San Diego, but at a fraction of the cost. Think of it like the Hong Kong/Shenzen nexus: lower cost labor across the border, but equal skills.35. http://www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/content/docs/pubs/ The_Future_of_Work.pdf
36. http://hbr.org/hbr-main/resources/pdfs/comm/fmglobal/restoring -american-competitiveness.pdf
37. Kenneth L. Kraemer, Greg Linden, and Jason Dedrick, “Capturing Value in Global Networks: Apple’s iPad and iPhone http://pcic.merage.uci.edu/papers/2011/Value_iPad_iPhone.pdf
38. http://www.bcg.com/media/PressReleaseDetails.aspxPid cm:12 -75973
39. http://money.cnn.eom/magazines/fortune/global500/2011/performers/ companies∕biggest∕
40. http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2011/01/ll/is-the-iphone -bad-for-the-american-economy/
41. http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/crowdfunding-exemption.html
42. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/05/president -obama-sign-jumpstart-our-business-startups-jobs-act
43. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/the -underground-venture-capital-economy∕2010∕12∕20∕gl QAzkRQyJ _blog.html
44. http://cultureconductor.com/author/sarahdopp/
45. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17531736
46. http √∕www.wired.com/magazine/2011/03/ff_kickstarter/all/1
47. http://www.etsy.com/blog/news/2012/notes-from-chad-funding -etsys-future/
48. http://www.slideshare.net/stevekeifer/b2b-emarketplaces-rise-and -fall-by-steve-keifer
49. http://ftp.iftf.me/public/IFTF_open_fab_China_conversation.pdf
5 O. http: 11www. iftf. org∕ LightweightInnovation
51. Neil Stephenson, The Diamond Age: AYoung Lady’s Illustrated Primer (NewYork: Spectra, 1995).
52. http://mag.uchicago. edu∕science-medicine/crystal-method
53. FREE: The Future ofa Radical Price (New York: Hyperion, 2009).
54. Here are the main tools in my workshop:
Hardware:
• First-generation MakerBot Cupcake, upgraded as much as possible
• MakerBot Cyclops Ç-D scanner
• MyDIYCNC
• Hitachi Desktop Bandsaw
• Dremel workstation/drill press
• Weller WES51 soldering station
• Picoscope USB oscilloscope
• Saleae USB logic analyzer
• Volleman Power supply/Multimeter/Soldering station
Software:
• Adobe Illustrator (for laser cutting drawings)
• Autodesk 123D (for 3D)
• Cadsoft Eagle (for PCB design)
• Arduino, Notepad++ and TortoiseSVN and TortoiseGIT for version control