Content by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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It’s Time for a Government Reset, and the Ideas Are Flourishing
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This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. If the cascading upheavals of the past year have done nothing else, they’ve spurred widespread calls for reform and renewal in just about...
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Design for Recycling
M. Mitchell Waldrop
If you were to contact a group of recycling professionals, as one recent survey did, and ask them to list all the ways that consumer product manufacturers drive them crazy, you’d probably...
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Will Robots Take My Job?
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This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Back in the 1990s, when U.S. banks started installing automated teller machines in a big way, the human tellers who worked in those banks...
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3D Printing Finds a Custom Foothold in Manufacturing, Part 2
M. Mitchell Waldrop
This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Part one looked at the innovative possibilities inherent in 3D printing; here we consider some of its shortcomings and the solutions that...
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3D Printing Finds a Custom Foothold in Manufacturing, Part 1
M. Mitchell Waldrop
This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Since May 2015, in a section of its WorldPort distribution center in Louisville, Kentucky, United Parcel Service (UPS) has been operating a...