Owen Tien, of the Michigan-based ThingSmiths, seems to be with me on the return to localization. Running his 3D printing service bureau, Tien takes advantage of the business made possible online, but he also emphasizes the local relationships that can be made in offering residents of Ann Arbour a place to manufacture prototypes and goods. He tells his local paper, Midland Daily News: My great-grandfather was a blacksmith and, in his time, if you needed something made or fixed it wasn’t ordered through Amazon and then plugged in.…
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