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One result of my longstanding interest in manufacturing is that I’ve noticed certain trends. The most notable trends come from the impact of machines, both computers and robots. Global manufacturing makes much more use of robots than it once did. We can prototype objects whose design once made them infeasible. Automation continues to capture new domains, previously reserved only for human hands. I predict that these trends will continue, and they will deeply change manufacturing. In addition, I think they will have impacts on innovation, entrepreneurship, globalization, politics, and on all of the objects that make up our everyday world.