{"id":402,"date":"2005-11-07T17:15:47","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T21:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=402"},"modified":"2005-11-09T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T15:02:43","slug":"fab-labs-crafty-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Fab Lab’s Crafty Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picking up where I left off with my previous post, there’s a nice read over on Wired today called “Imagine, Make It Real in Fab Lab<\/a>“. Nothing terribly new here but this part got my attention: <\/p>\n

“I’m not worried about being out of a job, but I think there would be new uses for this technology that people can’t even imagine,” said Gianfranco Zaccai, president and chief executive of Design Continuum, a Boston design and development firm. “It might be a harbinger for the return of the village craftsman<\/strong> in a world of high technology.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds very much like how I explained this on the Core77 forum over a year ago:<\/p>\n

There’s an argument for two kinds of IDer: those that exist in big corp product machines, pumping out cell phone give-aways to entice people to sign service contracts; and those that address the more fickle and competitive niche markets too small for the corporations to care about. Corp job will be safer (at least in appearance – anyone can get fired). The indy IDer will have to be more scrappy and agile. Maybe form a small community and probably exist more like the underground film industry (an interesting community, for sure).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m describing something more like the evolution of craftsmen<\/strong> (“person” for the pc). A ceramicist has tools like a wheel and a kiln. But as RP drops in price, an IDers tools may be a PC and SLA machine (or just access to the service)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now the question on my mind is, does Zaccai lurk over on Core?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Picking up where I left off with my previous post, there’s a nice read over on Wired today called “Imagine, Make It Real in Fab Lab“. Nothing terribly new here but this part got my attention: “I’m not worried about … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}