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A New Industrial Future?
3D Printing and the Reconfiguring of Production, Distribution, and Consumption
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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.
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 the potential future involving the mass adoption of 3D printing. The presence of 3D printers in homes, offices, stores, and workshops would disrupt existing systems and pose novel challenges for incumbents.
The book, drawing upon expert interviews, scenario workshops, and various case studies, 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 system of manufacturing that is in formation.
This book will be of interest to urban planners, policy makers, social scientists, futurologists, economists, as well as general readers. It provides an inquiry into this future upheaval in the means of production.
Series: Antinomies
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A New Industrial Future?
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,...Hardback$22400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
A New Industrial Future?
A New Industrial Future? examines whether a further industrial revolution is taking place around the world. In this compelling book, Birtchnell and Urry explore the potential future involving the mass adoption of 3D printing. The presence of 3D printers in homes, offices, stores, and workshops would disrupt existing systems and pose novel challenges for incumbents. The book, drawing upon expert...Paperback$7799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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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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ISBN: 9781138022928
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 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
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Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 248g
Pages: 134
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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