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A New Industrial Future?

3D Printing and the Reconfiguring of Production, Distribution, and Consumption
By John Urry and Thomas Birtchnell
Series: Antinomies
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A New Industrial Future? explores the possibility of a new industrial revolution driven by the widespread adoption of 3D printing technology. Authors John Urry and Thomas Birtchnell investigate how placing 3D printers in homes, offices, stores, and workshops could disrupt traditional manufacturing, transport, trade, and land use systems. Drawing on expert interviews, scenario workshops, and case studies, the book offers a pioneering social scientific analysis of this emerging system of production and its potential global impacts.
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This book is ideal for urban planners, policy makers, social scientists, futurologists, economists, and general readers interested in understanding the profound changes 3D printing may bring to manufacturing and society.

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A New Industrial Future? approaches the revolution of printing in 3D from a socially and culturally informed perspective, avoiding media hyperbole and technological determinism.

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A New Industrial Future? examines whether a further industrial revolution is taking place around the world. In this compelling book, Birtchnell and Urry explore a new possible future involving the mass adoption of 3D printing.

The locating of 3D printers in homes, offices, stores, and workshops would disrupt existing systems and pose novel challenges for incumbents. Drawing upon expert interviews, scenario workshops, and various case studies, the book assesses the potential future of global manufacturing, freight transport, world trade, and land use.

It offers the first book-length social scientific analysis of the character and impacts of a new manufacturing system that is in formation. The book will be of interest to urban planners, policymakers, social scientists, futurologists, and economists, as well as general readers, by offering an inquiry into this future upheaval in the means of production.

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Adrian Smith, Professor of Technology & Society at the University of Sussex, praises the book’s clear and balanced analysis of the societal implications of 3D printing. He highlights the authors’ exploration of the technology’s complex relationship with capital, labour, consumption, and the environment, and commends their navigation of the possible futures shaped by this transformative innovation.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138022911

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 July 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 430g

Pages: 134

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Education & Reference John Urry Non-Fiction Science & Nature Series: Antinomies Thomas Birtchnell

About the Author

Thomas Birtchnell is a Senior Lecturer in Geography and Sustainable Communities at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

John Urry is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Institute for Social Futures, Lancaster University, UK

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