????一旦我們意識(shí)到，制造是一種能力，我們就可以通過把制造業(yè)大眾化來實(shí)現(xiàn)這個(gè)目標(biāo)。我們?nèi)巳硕伎梢猿蔀橹圃焐獭W巴馬在國情咨文中宣布，計(jì)劃投資10億美元建立一個(gè)全國制造業(yè)創(chuàng)新網(wǎng)絡(luò)，這個(gè)網(wǎng)絡(luò)由15個(gè)先進(jìn)的制造業(yè)中樞組成。要想讓美國的制造業(yè)復(fù)興，我們并不需要15個(gè)制造業(yè)中樞，我們需要的是1,500萬個(gè)可以制造創(chuàng)新產(chǎn)品的人。

????在不久的將來，3D打印技術(shù)將走進(jìn)千家萬戶。這是制造能力的大眾化。有了3D打印機(jī)后，人人都可以通過數(shù)碼設(shè)計(jì)制造出各種想象中的物體，或者借用不管來自世界哪個(gè)角落的某種設(shè)計(jì)。只需要按一個(gè)按鈕，3D打印機(jī)就可以用一層層的塑料或其它材質(zhì)，把你設(shè)計(jì)的物品在你眼前“打印”出來。10年前的科幻小說情節(jié)如今已經(jīng)成為現(xiàn)實(shí)。事實(shí)上，能讓我們的電腦打印紙質(zhì)文檔的點(diǎn)矩陣打印機(jī)，還是不久之前才發(fā)明出來的，而現(xiàn)在3D打印機(jī)又以同樣的方式，使我們夢(mèng)想的各種物體都能呈現(xiàn)在我們眼前。有了3D打印機(jī)的魔力，人人都是制造商，唯一能限制我們的，就是我們的想象力。

????奧巴馬把復(fù)興美國經(jīng)濟(jì)的希望寄托在重振制造業(yè)上，我同意他的觀點(diǎn)。但我認(rèn)為，在實(shí)踐這個(gè)目標(biāo)的過程中，應(yīng)該減少從上至下的成分，更多的是要自下而上。“全民造物”運(yùn)動(dòng)已經(jīng)在蓬勃發(fā)展了。如果你想親眼見證它的發(fā)展，只需要參加2013年全球60個(gè)民間制造者大會(huì)中的一個(gè)。制造者大會(huì)是老老少少的民間制造者的盛會(huì)，它既是科學(xué)盛會(huì)，也是地區(qū)盛會(huì)，同時(shí)也是一種前所未有的新生事務(wù)。2012年，有16.5萬人參加了舊金山灣區(qū)和紐約的兩場(chǎng)創(chuàng)造者大會(huì)。如果你也去的話，你一定會(huì)被那種親手制造東西的熱情所感染，你心里一定會(huì)無可遏制地冒出親自動(dòng)手敲敲打打、組裝零件和DIY點(diǎn)什么東西的念頭。

????“全民造物”運(yùn)動(dòng)已經(jīng)在美國各地蓬勃展開了。想象一下，如果美國的每一個(gè)社區(qū)都由下而上地迸發(fā)出生產(chǎn)熱情，而不是由上而下地依賴幾個(gè)生產(chǎn)中樞，那會(huì)是什么情形。少一些“推動(dòng)”，多一些“拉動(dòng)”，我們?nèi)巳硕寄艹蔀橹圃旒摇?財(cái)富中文網(wǎng))

????本文作者索爾．卡普蘭是《商業(yè)模式創(chuàng)新工廠》一書的作者，也是美國羅德島州普羅維登斯市的商業(yè)創(chuàng)新工廠公司的創(chuàng)始人和首席分析師，定期在It's Saul Connected網(wǎng)站發(fā)表博文。

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????Once we realize that manufacturing is a capability we can get on with democratizing it. We can all be manufacturers. In the State of the Union Address President Obama announced his plan for a $1 billion investment to build a National Network for Manufacturing Innovation composed of fifteen advanced manufacturing hubs. To bring manufacturing back to the U.S. we don't need fifteen hubs, we need fifteen million makers creating stuff.

????It won't be long before everyone will have access to a 3D printer. Talk about democratized manufacturing capability. Armed with a 3D printer, individual makers can create their own digital design for any imagined object or borrow a design from anywhere around the world. By simply pressing a button makers can set a 3D printer into motion rendering the physical object with layers of plastic or other material right before their eyes. What was science fiction ten years ago is reality today. It wasn't long ago we listened to the whir of a dot-matrix printer spitting out documents from our computers, now a 3D printer renders any object we can dream up the same way. With the magic of 3D printing capability we are all manufacturers, constrained only by our imaginations.

????I agree with President Obama that our national mantra should be to make more stuff. I just think the effort should be less top-down and more bottom-up. The maker movement is already in full swing. If you want to witness it first hand just go to one of the 60 community Maker Fairesbeing held around the world in 2013. Maker Faires are all-age community gatherings of makers. They are part science fair, part county fair, and part something entirely new. 165,000 people attended the two flagship Maker Faires in the Bay Area and New York in 2012. If you go, prepare to be blown away by an infectious passion to make things, creativity to hack and reassemble the parts and a do-it-yourself (DIY) fire in the belly that won't be stopped.

????A maker movement is already happening across the country. Imagine if instead of looking for top down solutions in a small number of manufacturing hubs we encouraged the bottom up maker momentum emerging in every community. Less push, more pull. We can all be manufacturers.

????Saul Kaplan is the author of The Business Model Innovation Factory. He is the founder and chief catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory (BIF) in Providence, RI, and blogs regularly at It's Saul Connected.