Reading Reflection

Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, Chris Anderson

The overall theme of this book, without a doubt, is this is what the future has in store. Throughout the book the text is always looking forward and into the future of what manufacturing has coming to it. While this point could be seen as an argument, I believe that he backs up his point and assert it as a fact rather than an argument. I think that this book connected very well with what we are ENT 3003. The author is an entrepreneur himself, as well as having a background in the Economist Magazine, giving him a strong knowlege in the area. This book also details the ways that the author believes the way that the future will look in regard to manufacturing and the way that the nature of production is changing. The exercise I would create for the class is a paper/study based on how manufacturing has changed since the start of industrial revolution as well as a roughly 10-year forecast into the future of what we think manufacturing will look like in the near future. What I took away the most is how through devices like 3D printers the traditional sense of manufacturing can be replaced. While not on a massive scale, but for many products this idea is highly successful and profitable. By reading this book I learned about the changing trends in the production of goods and realize that where there are being produced is changing as well as the costs associated with them.