“Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” It’s on its way.

Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine and “The Long Tail” has written another insightful book about and emerging technological and societal phenomenon.

Three-D printing,small-batch internet based manufacturing, and the culture of shared creativity are changing the face of manufacturing and erasing the advantage of outsourcing jobs.

When Captain Picard of the Enterprise ordered a cup of hot tea from the replicator, it was fiction. Today, we can make the tea cup. It is not unimaginable that soon, we can fill the cup with tea, too.

Very well read, I enjoyed the cadence and timber of the narrator’s voice. Some of the material gets a little dry and geeky, but the narration helped keep it from being boring.