Our panel also argues that the U.S. has real opportunities -- the coming emergence of additive, manufacturing -- what Petrick calls "Internet manufacturing" -- the breakaway of American oil and gas prices from OPEC cartel control, and overwhelming public support for a manufacturing comeback.
This concept is illustrated in the form of an internet manufacturing laboratory where design, fabrication, IT, and other supporting tools are integrated to rapidly fabricate complex 3D prototype models.
In recent years, Internet Plus has transformed several industries, creating various new concepts such as e-commerce, Internet finance, online tourism, "Internet + manufacturing industry," "Internet + agriculture," "Internet + culture," and "Internet + government administration," The Internet Plus technology revolution has triggered a surge of innovation in all social and economic areas.
With the advent of the internet age, manufacturing enterprises face new challenges and opportunities in the competitive globalized local and global market.
Hitachi, which had been interested in manufacturing Internet terminals using Diba's software, shunned Diba in favor of Microsoft-backed WebTV.
The Chive (which gets around 5.6 million unique visits a month, according to Google) is part of a network of viral sites run by brothers Leo and John Resig, who have a storied history of manufacturing Internet hoaxes, most notably the $10,000 Donald Trump tip and the infamous "virgin text messages her dad that she lost her virginity".
A report from the country's main intelligence service, the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS), says the threat posed by these hacks are "very real" and that they could "affect water supply, energy and utilities, manufacturing, Internet communications technology or even gravely affect institutions such as schools and hospitals".
Under the Internet of Manufacturing Things, an identification technology for disassembled engine parts was designed, and the real-time status of the remanufacturable resources can be monitored.
The Internet and advances in manufacturing now allow for a much wider range of products aimed at narrower consumer interests.
But not enough attention has been directed to this more benign Internet prospect: instead of manufacturing thousands of discs and getting them into stores, the record companies will increasingly take orders online, burn copies of the requested CD's and mail them.
What's especially troubling is that networking is the Internet's equivalent of manufacturing.
