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The Next Industrial Revolution (justinidea.com)
26 points by ricaurte on July 31, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Low cost automation in the hands of small biz and individuals is the next industrial revolution.

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/


Any chance this will pan out?


Given the method they've created to make carbon nanotubes, it should drive down the price of making the nanotubes and allow things to pan-out. Now if there is some serious flaw that comes-up in the commercialization process, then it probably won't, unless it is relatively inexpensive to overcome.





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