Fab  Lab  Society?  

   Peter  Troxler,  Research  Professor  

What  is  Happening?  

1.  Changes  on  the  surface  

2.  Changes  underneath  

3.  Changes  in  pracDce  

What  is  Happening?  

1.  Changes  on  the  surface  

2.  Changes  underneath  

3.  Changes  in  pracDce  

 12,800,000  results    1,570,000  blogs    17,300,000  videos  

 519,000  discussions  

Industrial  RevoluDon  

•  Neil  Gershenfeld,  2005:  Fab.  The  Coming  RevoluDon  on  Your  Desktop  

•  Jeremy  RiTin,  2011:  The  Third  Industrial  RevoluDon.  How  Lateral  Power  is  Transforming  Energy,  the  Economy,  and  the  World.    

•  Chris  Anderson,  2012:  Makers:  The  New  Industrial  RevoluDon  

•  Peter  Marsh,  2012:  The  New  Industrial  RevoluDon:  Consumers,  GlobalizaDon  and  the  End  of  Mass  ProducDon  

Jeremy  RiTin  

[T]he conventional top-down organization of society that characterized

much of the economic, social, and political life of the fossil-fuel based

industrial revolutions is giving way to distributed and collaborative

relationships in the emerging green industrial era. We are in the midst of

a profound shift in the very way society is structured, away from

hierarchical power and toward lateral power. (Rifkin 2011, p. 36f.)

Jeremy  RiTin  

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•  Icon  steam  engine  >  conveyor  belt  >  3D  printer  

•  Actor  capitalist  >  management  consultant  >  maker  

•  Structure  paDarchical  >  hierarchical  >  lateral  

•  Supply  Chain  colonial  >  global  >  conDnental  /  regional  

•  Transport  railway  >  automobile  &  air  travel  >  ???  

•  CiDes  crowded  inner  ciDes  >  suburbia  >  ???  

•  Social  working  class  >  middle  class  >  ???  

•  ConsumpDon  consume  >  mass  consumpDon  >  prosumer  

•  Media  newspaper  >  radio  >  social  media,  UGC?  

•  Encyclopedia  Diderot  >  Britannica  >  Wikipedia  

•  Sofware  electromechanical  (?)  >  proprietary  >  open  source?  

•  Design  craf  >  design  >  open  design  

 

What  is  Happening?  

1.  Changes  on  the  surface  

2.  Changes  underneath  

3.  Changes  in  pracDce  

Chris  Anderson  

•  2011:  Atoms  are  the  New  Bits  (Wired)  •  2012:  Makers.  The  New  Industrial  RevoluDon.  

•  “Maker  RevoluDon”  •  Custom-­‐fabricated,  do-­‐it-­‐yourself  product  design  and  creaDon;  US  focus  

Neil  Gershenfeld  

•  2005:  Fab.  The  Next  RevoluDon  on  Your  Desktop  

•  2012:  How  to  Make  Almost  Anything.  The  Digital  FabricaDon  RevoluDon.  (Foreign  Affairs)  

•  “Personal  Digital  FabricaDon”  •  Personal  fabricaDon  for  a  market  of  one  •  Locally  develop  soluDons  to  local  problems  

Alvin  Toffler  

•  1970:  Future  Shock  •  1980:  The  Third  Wave    (2006  republished  as  RevoluDonary  Wealth)  

•  Post-­‐Industrial  Society  

James  R.  Beniger  

•  1986:  Control  RevoluDon.  Technological  and  Economid  Origins  of  the  InformaDon  Society.    

•  “a  society's  ability  to  maintain  control  –  at  all  levels  from  interpersonal  to  internaDonal  relaDons  –  will  be  directly  proporDonal  to  the  development  of  its  informaDon  technologies”  

David  Noble  

•  1988:  Forces  of  ProducDon.  A  Social  History  of  Industrial  AutomaDon.    

•  division  between  white  collar  and  blue  collar  work    

•  struggle  of  managers  to  gain  control  over  workers  

•  “military  thrust  toward  total  control  [that]  indulged  technical  enthusiasms  while  it  raDfied  managerial  propensiDes”  

Shoshanna  Zuboff  

•  1988:  In  the  Age  of  the  Smart  Machine    

•  2002  (together  with  James  Maxmin):  The  Support  Economy  Why  CorporaDons  are  Failing  Individuals  and  the  Next  Episode  of  Capitalism  

•  “TransacDon  Crisis”  •  Example:  Old  Aged  Peoples’  Homes  

Shumpei  Kumon  

•  Info-­‐Socionomics  

•  2004:  情報社会学序説  ―  ラストモダンの時代を生きる  (Living  in  the  age  of  Last  Modern.  IntroducDon  to  Info-­‐Socionomics)  

•  "Wisdom  game"  as  dominant  paradigm  in  InformaDon  society  

Umar  Haque  

•  2011:  The  New  Capitalist  Manifesto    Building  A  DisrupDvely  Be`er  Business.  

Yochai  Benkler  

•  2002:  Commons-­‐based  Peer-­‐ProducDon  

•  2006:  Wealth  of  Networks  2011:  The  Penguin  and  the  Leviathan  

Beniger  –  Control  RevoluDon  Noble  –  Forces  of  ProducDon  

Zuboff  –  Smart  Machine:  Technology  as  OpDon  

Toffler  –  Post-­‐Industrial  Society  Kumon  –  Info-­‐Socionomics  Benkler  –  Peer  ProducDon  RiTin  –  Lateral  Power  

 

Anderson  –  “Makers”  Gershenfeld  –  InvenDve  Power  

of  the  World  

Zuboff  /  Maxim  –  Distributed  Capitalism  

Haque  –  ConstrucDve  Capitalism  

What  is  Happening?  

1.  Changes  on  the  surface  

2.  Changes  underneath  

3.  Changes  in  pracDce  

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