false 2888480 0 0 6769867 9075414196 9789075414196 0 <![CDATA[Open for Business - Open Source Inspired Innovation]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6769867-open-for-business-open-source-inspired-innovation 0.0 0 2888480 0.0 0 0 2888481 0.0 0 0 877192 4.00 1 1 2007 6372242 9075414226 9789075414226 0 <![CDATA[Me the Media - Rise of the Conversation Society]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6372242-me-the-media-rise-of-the-conversation-society 0.0 0 Past, Present and Future of the Third Media Revolution Since the mid 19th century countless innovations have sprung up from American soil, in particular those related to technology and media. With Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States the change that web media can create, is being further satisfied. For example, during the campaign at myBarackObama.com, YouTube and Facebook, and later at Change.gov amongst others, his messages were resonating and swelling in a genuinely democratic way.
Through web media Barack Obama was able to deliberately implement We the People anew, so that each and every individual who chooses to can participate in a variety of ways. It is along these lines that the world is moving ahead from the well-known concept of the Conversation Economy to a Conversation Society, which is the ultimate consequence, if not goal, of what is referred to in this book as the Third Media Revolution.
Me the Media is how we call this multimedia web-based age. The old, trusted mass media have been absorbed by the new media mass in which we all participate as individuals and consumers. After the printing press and movable type, and after such mass media as radio and TV, the modern era of the Web is the Third great Media Revolution undergone by humanity. This sweeping wave has far-reaching consequences: for business, for society, for technology, and for us.
In this Me-Media dynamics composites of digital alter egos are rapidly becoming an accepted form of personal and brand identity. They increasingly form the basis of the social and economic activity in which individuals, organizations, and government engage. The Third Media Revolution e-mancipates physical identities to the Hyperego level: the digital me s we know so well from CNN s iReport, iGoogle, iPhone, myBarackObama, YouTube and the like. All are hyperlinked and super active on the Web, involving citizens, brands, companies and politicians. The coming decades will see us intimately and physically interconnected within our own web by means of ordinary hardware and software, but subsequently also via biochemistry ( wetware ) and nanotech. In this way, life will become one enormous test laboratory for the further development of humanity.]]> 2888480 0.0 0 0 2888481 0.0 0 0 567242 4.00 1 1 128425 4.00 3 0 2009 7373178 9075414250 9789075414257 0 <![CDATA[Virtual Concept > Real Profit with Digital Manufacturing and Simulation]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7373178-virtual-concept-real-profit-with-digital-manufacturing-and-simulation 0.0 0 Digital manufacturing and simulation clearly constitute contemporary extensions of the train of thought and practice that Frederick Winslow Taylor started a century ago. The evolution from Taylormade to tailor-made is in perfect concert with the ongoing customization that customers have learned not only to demand but to even co-create. Apart from lowering cost and improving timetomarket, digital manufacturing and simulation are targeted at intensifying the intimacy, efficiency and effectiveness of co-creation feedback loops, fostering the collaboration of manufacturers, customer communities, independent R&D institutes and individuals. This emerging democratization of design, engineering, production, maintenance, repair, overhaul and recycling marks the impending impact of digital manufacturing and simulation.

In five chapters this book discusses the various topics and issues that are central to the implementation and development of digital manufacturing and simulation. The first Welcome chapter presents key concepts, needs and issues. These are further explored in four other chapters: A Crash Course, Challenges, Benefits and The Future. Each chapter starts off with an introductory snapshot and concludes with a Bookmark section that relates the chapter to the other parts and the message of the book.

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