The Future of Manufacturing

July 17th, 2012

Vivek Wadhwa writes about the future of manufacturing:

Neil Jacobstein, who chairs the AI track at the Silicon Valley-based graduate program Singularity University, says that AI technologies will find their way into manufacturing and make it “personal”: that we will be able to design our own products at home with the aid of AI design assistants. He predicts a “creator economy” in which mass production is replaced by personalized production, with people customizing designs they download from the Internet or develop themselves.

Fascinating to think about. A world where manufacturing uses very little labor frees up millions of people to do other things, and would make it even more important that we redesign our education system.