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In his much-quoted column, Friedman says(http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/friedman-need-a-job-invent-it.html?hp&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2013
by Jun8 13y ago
In his much-quoted column, Friedman says(http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/friedman-need-a-job-invent-it.html?hp&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/friedman-ne...): "Every middle-class job today is being pulled up, out or down faster than ever."
Middle income families who rely on manufacturing has been hit hard, with no prospects of an exit.
- gridmaths 13y agoyeah, well maybe all manufacturing will be superseded by 3D printing.. in which case you'd want to move into design rather than assembly. I think eg. Foxcon is going to be a very temporary thing. I always thought that at some point a robot arm will be cheaper than a human to assemble electronics.. but we may skip that stage altogether. Pretty soon you'll just print your iPhone, bypassing assembly completely.
- nitrogen 13y ago3D printing electronics from the transistor (or even IC) up is a very long way away. Centralized manufacturing will exist for a long time. ICs are significantly cheaper in quantities of 10k+, and there's no way a 3D printer could generate a silicon wafer and etch a working circuit onto it, at least not economically. Chip fabs still cost 10 figures.