The Brittle Spear
The Brittle Spear, a Manifesto: We Will 3D Print All of the Things that Matter
Recently, I was rather shocked to discover that some people outside our market still think of 3D printing as a toy technology for making Yoda heads. One individual reminded me…
The Brittle Spear VIII: Will the New Fade Faster than the Old?
In my Brittle Spear series, I wrote of how the tip of technology’s spear grows ever sharper but more brittle. One of the things I mentioned was that the Cubans…
The Brittle Spear VII: New Business Models
Green begets green. If we want to save the planet, then we should make it profitable to do so. That sadly is the only real path to implementing genuinely global…
The Brittle Spear Part IV: Reenter the Readymade via 3D Printing
Just to be perfectly clear: from a pure art perspective, I think readymades were a horrible mistake, a distraction, a wrong turn. Duchamp’s Fountain was not one to throw coins…
The Brittle Spear Part III: Digital Kintsugi and 3D Printed Spare Parts
In this series, previously we looked at how we’re creating a system designed to spit out less able things and that these things may be better but will be less…
The Brittle Spear, Part I: A Disposable World
As the tip of a spear grows ever sharper, it also becomes more brittle. Much has been said about planned obsolescence where companies engineer products to fail earlier than they…
