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LET A THOUSAND FACTORIES BLOOM

BY KEVIN MANEY

@kmaney

DISRUPTIVE

IF THE FOLKS at 3D Hubs are right, presidential candidates can stop fulminating about bringing back manufacturing from China or Bangladesh or wherever. Technology will render that shift inevitable. In the next decade, the business dynamic that makes it a good idea for a lot of U.S. companies to manufacture overseas will go poof. The very concept of a big honkin’ factory will eventually become as anachronistic as a typing pool.

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Newsweek International
15th April 2016
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