Wednesday, September 26, 2012

“…the next big boom is hardware”


Timbuktu Chronicles
We've been posting about this for a while.Jon Evans at TechCrunch:
Replicator 2 from Makerbot
...because there's a new one coming. Software continues to eat the world–but I believe the name of the next big boom is hardware. Somebody a few years hence will write an article much like this one, looking back on the incredible hardware boom, and it will begin with a brief history of Arduino, MakerBot, and TechShop. We saw it simmering at Disrupt this year; Lit Motors won runner-up, and I found Hardware Alley more interesting than almost all the software startups. The hardware cycle is slower than that of software, so its boom may take ten years to peak, rather than three or four…but it's coming. My advice is to get in and stake your claim now...[continue reading]
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