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Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine and bestselling author, takes you to the cutting edge of a new industrial revolution, as entrepreneurs use open source design and 3-D printing to bring production to the desktop. The aggregate potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is about to be released, sparking a renaissance of American manufacturing, in an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and development. The new technologies of digital design and quick prototyping allow everyone the capacity to develop, generating "the long tail of things," and a generation of "Makers" embracing the Web's innovation model will help drive the next great wave in the global economy.