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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touch
by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. --Warren Bennis
Bu imagine an alternative world without factories. The maker movement is still ahead of us. Imagine there exists an open-hape-wiki with 3d-models of every part of every thing we ever built (actually these models exist already but are not open source).
The shop & tools are would be a 3d-printer plus remote controlled robot arms (so that a person from Ukraine can deliver service to you).
- madengr 9y agoSure, but why is the person from Ukraine in the loop? Don't get me started on 3D printing (I have one). It has its uses, and more so (with all the hype) it doesn't have its uses.
- paulus_magnus2 9y agoThe person from Ukraine is in the loop anyway, except currently they are employed by BigCo1 at $1/day and still BigCo1 charges you $100/h for services taking all the arbitrage profits. The goal is to dis-intermediate, to enable person to person (customer & supplier) to profit from the living cos / efficiency arbitrage.