Create anything and make anywhere

Today, there is no networked manufacturing like it is like

Produced a bunch of broken copper iron iron without life signs

It is destined to be abandoned by the times

A common thinking of manufacturing is that the total imagination of hardware is hardware and software is software. Why not let the atom and Bit integrate? Thoroughly breaking the wall between digital and physics, transforming data into items, and transforming items into data? When atoms are in harmony with Bit, we will usher in the era of "personal manufacturing", or the era of "community manufacturing". Individuals and communities can use machines (or called personal manufacturing machines) that integrate consumer electronics and industrial machines, and designed and produced things that belong to your own in your own home and community.

When we complete our own personalized design, how can we turn it into a product? You can print it with a 3D printer at home or in public production facilities. 3D printing brings "additive manufacturing", which is completely opposite to traditional material processing production methods. The past method was to remove the excess of the material with dynamic mechanical tools to obtain a suitable shape. This process is awkward and complicated, time -consuming and laborious. In the manufacturing of additives, based on the three -dimensional CAD model data, it can be used to construct an object by layer -by -layer printing to construct objects -not reducing materials. This allows us to create objects without any tools or fixed devices. It does not produce waste, nor increases excessive costs as complexity increases.

Today, 3D printers can make medical devices, medical implants, jewelry and even clothing. The cheapest 3D printer that can only print the most basic object is priced at $ 500 to $ 1,000. It won't be long before we can use this price to print toys and family supplies printers. In the next ten years, printing electronic products and building materials with 3D printers should not be fantasies.

With the advancement of materials, we will produce more strong, lighter, more energy -saving and durable products. The nano technology -that is, the "molecular manufacturing" -the sacred grail of the manufacturing industry can make a new nano structure with a new molecular tissue at an atom and an atomic land. The nano -structure materials will show novel and significant improvement of physical, chemical and biological characteristics, so that the possibility of creating new things becomes unlimited. The major improvement of material performance and the change of manufacturing models will trigger another industrial revolution.

On the production line, the next -generation robots will soon become cheaper than artificially. As a specialized electric-machine-device controlled by software and remote control, robots can now engage in various tasks: carrying goods, helping elderly groups to do housework, surgery, and even military reconnaissance and blows. In addition, through the open source community and ready -made robot development tools, people can assemble robots by themselves or develop applications for these robots.

The use of robotics technology, cheap energy, product manufacturing, and technology research and development have become mutually dependent industrial trends, which is becoming the new change in this manufacturing industry. Information, energy saving, new energy, and high -value -added advanced manufacturing have become the forefront of expansion. In the past few years, the manufacturing industry has gone through the negation process. Nowadays, no networked manufacturing is like producing a bunch of broken copper iron iron without life signs, which are destined to be abandoned by the times. The new generation of intelligent manufacturing and rapid reaction technology reduces the threshold for product design and manufacturing. The rapid and effective response to the market has become a magic weapon for seizing the market.

New digital and intelligent technologies make it possible for us to make anything, and it is possible to create anywhere. This time, the place of manufacturing is not a factory, but in people's own home, in the community that people gather. This will bring extremely far -reaching impact. For example, it will change the nature of work, the nature of money, and even the nature of the entire economy. Further, it will change the person itself. Imagine that a "personal manufacturing machine" can make anything and even copy it yourself. What will happen to this automated factory system that completely separate from people? The novel "Auto Factory" of the science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick describes such a heartbreaking scene.

The important thing is that Dick introduced the concept of entropy and associated it with the post -scarcity problem. The automatic factory helped humans to reach a stage where they had nothing, but it restricted innovation in progress. The automatic factory cannot develop new products, but only adheres to everything that must be in line with design drawings or formulas. They always fix humanity in one position.

From the age of "Automatic Factory", a theme that human beings have thought for more than 60 years are: which one is more humane, is an artificial robot or a robotic person?

(Author coefficient nostalgia)

Send 2022.7.11 Total Issue 1051 "China News Weekly" magazine

Magazine title: Create anything and make anywhere

Author: Hu Yong

Edit: Wang Xiaoxia

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