So it seems that Alvin Toffler, “Future Shock” etc, is going to reference Marshall Burns and my presentation to the O’Reilly P2P conference, and quote us as well.
I got this email,
Dear Mr. Howison:
I am an editor helping Alvin Toffler with his latest book. Alvin, as you may
know, is the author of “Future Shock,” “The Third Wave,” and many other
books concerning the future. In a chapter on digital fabrication, we refer
to the paper by you and Mr. Burns presented at the 2001 O’Reilly conference.
We also have a snip of a clip in our file in which you are quoted as saying
with regard to current file swapping of songs as compared to upcoming home
fabricator files, “If you thought the record companies were pissed off, wait
til the manufacturers realize that P2P will affect them, too!”However, our clip does not contain the source of the quote. Would you happen
to be able to provide it? If not, may we still attribute the quote to you?
I’m stoked. Sure “pissed off” isn’t normal academic langauge—but I am Australian! I wrote back hoping that he’d reference our peer reviewed journal paper as well,
Burns, Marshall and Howison, James (2001) “Digital manufacturing - Napster fabbing: Internet delivery of physical products”, Rapid Prototyping Journal; Bradford; v7 n4 p194.
Marshall wrote back offering to review the chapter and chat through the issues. It is nice to know that some people are following up this issue. I’m not really working on it at the moment but it remains an interest.
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