The concepts of co-creation, user/desktop manufacturing and fabbing are buzzing around massively (not only on the Internet) these days. As a matter of fact, there is a lot of praise to find in the articles, blog entries, interviews and comments on these issues. We thought it’s time to put together some positive as well as negative ideas, forecasts and visions about the future of the emerging business we are a very part of:

Co-Creation
A blog post treating the buzzword co-creation. What does it mean?
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In Crimes to Come
Interesting article written by Dr. Tom Easton  covering some negative impacts (illegal products, intellectual property and fraud) fabbing and similar technologies could have on society and economy.
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The Design Implications of Mass Customization
An article written by Tim Clayton covering the history and future of mass customization, who coined the term mass customization, different implications of mass customization (post-production-customization, adaptive customization etc), co-design, change in relationship between production and consumption and the emergence of the prosumer (already some years old, but still compelling).
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MoMoment: MoMo #4 - Joseph Pine II
A Video of a presentation held by well known author Joseph Pine II (1993 he published the award winning book: Mass Customization: The New Frontier in Business Competition) about customer experience, the experience economy and what customers really want ( summed up in his latest book: Authenticity).
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Stan Davis: The Future of Mass Customization
A short video interview with Stan Davis, the inventor of the term ‘Mass Customization’, talking about the future of mass customization.
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Configurator Database
Beside Stan Davis’ interview,  more video interviews with Frank Piller (MIT), Joseph Pine (see above), Ryan Chin (MIT), Lukasz Gadowski (Spreadshirt), Christopher Colosi (SecondLife) and others can be found on Configurator Database. 
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Why 21st Century Manufacturers Can’t Ignore Mass Customization 
An essay from David J. Gardner. He contrasts mass production with mass customization and describes the transition from mass production to mass customization.
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Matt Sinclair: The Limits of Consumer Co-Design
Matt Sinclair, researching for his PhD in the UK, discusses the limits of consumer co-design.
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Trend Map 2008
Shows a  detailed trend map for 2008 (with the principle of subway/underground maps) including 3d-print on one bough.
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Detlef Schoder on the future of the newspaper, personalized printing, and how we can get our daily blog feed into the morning paper
Professor Detlef Schoder (well known researcher on mass customization and the idea of mass customized newspapers) interviewed by Frank Piller on the future of personalized newspaper.
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Marke Eigenbau. Der Aufstand der Massen gegen die Massenproduktion
A new book showcasing the rise of the economy of individual initiatives using a lot of national (German) and international examples.
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Gutenberg and the Democratization of 3D-Printing-Technology
Some thoughts on the impact of 3D-printing-technology I posted back in August.

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