Tim O'Reilly traces how products like multi-touch displays emerge from maker movements before becoming mainstream consumer electronics. He explores how democratized manufacturing and the industrial Internet are reshaping how technology gets built and adopted.
And the first thing you have to look at is the arc of new technologies. Every new technology starts with a maker movement. You know, I mean the homebrew computer club, the, you know, the early World Wide web, everybody was rolling their own right and it turns into a big business. And so it's really important to understand the maker movement first of all as a stage of the industry. And it has this characteristic that as soon as it becomes mainstream, people don't see it as maker anymore. So a great example of this is multi touch displays. I remember back in 2005 we were showing off at our E Tech conference Danny Hillis map table which was this giant table he built for the Air Force or the CIA or somebody that you could do all those things on. And then there was Jeff Hahn 2006, he's there at TED in our E Tech conference showing his homebrew multi touch display which actually later he turned it into a company and sold to cnn. When you see them up there doing that perceptive pixel display, but frickin 2007 it turns into an iPhone. Nobody thinks of multi touch as a maker thing. It was only two years from being a maker thing to being in the hands of millions of people. And I think we're going to see a lot of technologies that we call maker now that will just be like hey, that's consumer electronics. So that's the first thing I would say there. But there are some very, very deep lessons in the maker movement. The first is this notion that I talked about here about how sensors are becoming part of everything and how hardware inform software and how it's going to change the nature of the interfaces when you have devices that actually have their own sensorium. So that's one. Then there's the other big wing which is manufacturing being perhaps democratized in some profound ways. Whether it's through 3D printing or whether it's through low cost reusable hardware platforms or whether it's through access to manufacturing in China. And then I guess I would say finally there's what GE is calling the industrial Internet which is applying all these principles to really big pieces of equipment. There's a lot going on there and it will have a massive impact on business. It already is.
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