Limor Fried on What's Ahead for Manufacturing This innovator predicts how maker technologies will change in years to come.

By Linda Lacina Jun 16, 2014

Manufacturing, once an arcane process locked away in factories, is becoming democratized. Technologies like 3-D printing, which have existed for decades, are now simplified enough to be done at a corner shop -- or even your own home. Limor Fried, the founder of Adafruit Industries, has been at the forefront of the maker movement and she explains what she believes is to come for manufacturing.

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Linda Lacina

Entrepreneur Staff

Linda Lacina is the former managing editor at Entrepreneur.com. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Smart Money, Dow Jones MarketWatch and Family Circle. Email her at llacina@entrepreneur.com. Follow her at @lindalacina on Twitter.

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