The data factory is the next industrial revolution

Sequoia’s Sir Michael Moritz: The ‘data factory’ is the next Industrial Revolution
Jolie O’Dell, venturebeat.com

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SAN FRAN­CIS­CO — Com­pu­ta­tion power, appli­ca­tions, device and ser­vices costs, and stor­age are expe­ri­enc­ing a dra­mat­ic upheaval not unlike the Indus­tri­al Rev­o­lu­tion of cen­turies past.

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Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement Changed one Man’s Life

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In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | Magazine

via www.wired.com

An interesting new article in Wired on the way that social networking, crowdsourcing and software driven, personal manufacturing is transforming the manufacturing of every type of good. Indeed the worlds of bit and atoms are merging at a rapid clip.