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Chris Anderson Joins Ponoko Advisory Board
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Chris Anderson Joins Ponoko Advisory Board
NEW YORK---(May 11,
2011)--/Wired/ magazine editor-in-chief Chris Anderson has
joined the advisory board of Ponoko Founded by David ten Have
and Derek Elley in 2007, Ponoko's Personal Factory^(TM)
software has already been used by designers,
micro-businesses and DIY manufacturers to make over 100,000
products. Berkley, Calif.-based//Anderson joins
Treehugger.com founder Graham Hill, co-founder and CEO of
Cafepress.com Fred Durham, and co-founder of
Designledfutures Ross Stevens, as a Ponoko board
advisor. "I'm a robotics geek, I love making things, and
for me, Ponoko is one of the inventors of the future of
manufacturing and the new industrial revolution," says
Anderson. In addition to writing a book on the forthcoming
manufacturing revolution, Anderson is the founder of
DIYDrones Chris
Anderson will have no shares in the company nor will he
receive any remuneration for his role. Ponoko featured on
the October 2009 cover of /INC/ magazine with the headline
"The Future of Manufacturing: a New Zealand company called
Ponoko has reinvented the factory for the 21st
century." Ponoko is spawning a new online making
environment which Anderson calls "the long tail of things."
In a January 2010 essay in /Wired/ Anderson wrote that,
"Peer production, open source, crowdsourcing, user-generated
content --- all these digital trends have begun to play out
in the world of atoms, too. The Web was just the proof of
concept. Now the revolution hits the real world. In short,
atoms are the new bits." Ponoko has digital making hubs in
Oakland, Calif.; Berlin; Milan; London; and Wellington, New
Zealand. CEO David ten Have characterizes Ponoko as a
making software platform company and not a 3D printing
bureau. "We set up Ponoko to change the world we live in. We
foresee a time where technology gives us all the power to
create and make any product we need on-demand. Right now
we're moving into the really exciting phase of how this
will happen."
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