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What do you guys think will happen with manufacturing in the next 10-20 years?
1 posted on 12/02/2004 11:40:26 PM PST by billybudd
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What do you guys think will happen with manufacturing in the next 10-20 years?

Mohammadens are probably dumb enough to build everything we could ever want, at slave wages, if we can convince them they're building bomb vests.

Productivity would soar. Let's start with a Hormel bacon factory and see what happens.

2 posted on 12/02/2004 11:43:23 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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Depends on the world economic situation.

I can easily envision 3-4 plausable senarios.


3 posted on 12/02/2004 11:59:42 PM PST by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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Not WHAT, but WHERE will it be?


5 posted on 12/03/2004 12:37:47 AM PST by endthematrix ("Hey, it didn't hit a bone, Colonel. Do you think I can go back?" - U.S. Marine)
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Nano is only something between an idea and a dream. Like a voyage to the moon was in the 16th Century.

Good fiction on the subject is Stevenson's "The Diamond Age".

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553380966/qid=1102065155/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/104-1174065-1559967


6 posted on 12/03/2004 1:13:32 AM PST by Iris7 (.....to protect the Constitution from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. Same bunch, anyway.)
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7 posted on 12/03/2004 3:14:56 AM PST by 1stMarylandRegiment (Conserve Liberty)
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Design and testing all done up front with digiatl modeling. Faster time from concept to market with fewer recalls also due to software. More robotics. The unltimate goal will be a factory without lights, not because of the electrical bill savings, but because it is completely automated and no one works there. The renewed love affair with cheap labor will end as quickly as it started.


8 posted on 12/03/2004 9:18:54 PM PST by sixmil
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