AXIOS April 15, 2020
The world is learning the hard way that ramping up manufacturing of the equipment needed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t as easy as scaling up the software that has come to dominate our lives.
Why it matters: Our economy has thrived on manipulating bytes, but to face the threats of the future, we’ll need to relearn how to manipulate atoms in the real world. New technology like 3D printing can help by putting the flexibility of software at work in the creation of stuff.
The big picture: “Software is eating the world,” wrote venture capitalist Marc Andreessen in 2011, making the case that the tech industry was poised for years of dominance as it spread to ever more economic...
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