How things are made is a common topic in the design and technology classroom but I wonder how many students have stopped to think what the future of making will be? What will the factories of the future look like? What will be made in them? Will they even exist?
The traditional picture of assembly lines and workers putting parts together is quickly becoming a history lesson. Manufacturing is now a matter of closing the gap between digital ideas and physical product, making what can be imagined a reality and personalising it for each customer. The fourth industrial revolution is using digital design and manufacture to move the information age to the imagination age. Who would have thought it?
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