Many people have ideas for inventions, but only a few act on them.
In our July 6, 2018, episode of QDL, we discuss distributed manufacturing, and distributed management.
The new healthcare venture formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase announced June 20, 2018, that Harvard
In our June 29, 2018, episode of QDL, we discuss AR, VR, and innovation.
We are here, and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
—H. L. Mencken
Manufacturing is an eternally forward-looking sector.
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An Adidas running shoe Futurecraft 4D midsole is printed on an industrial 3-D printer made by Carbon. The printer uses light and oxygen to create intricate designs, such as the varied lattices seen here, from a liquid resin, in a variant of stereolithography. CREDIT: ADIDAS
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Henry Ford is credited with the cheeky quote, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said, ‘A faster horse.’” But, people didn’t get a faster horse (which may indeed have been what they wanted).
In April, Ford announced that it will be phasing out nearly all of its
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