Reading Reflection No. 2

I read Makers: The New Industrial Revolution for this second reading reflection.

• What was the general theme or argument of the book?
• From just reading the title, I was instantly interested. From what I gather, the book was mainly about the future, and the realization that we are always going through a revolution, whether or not you notice. We have gone through a sort of circular pattern with manufacturing, and right now, it's at a fairly low level, and what this book predicts, and in my opinion predicts correctly, is that manufacturing is coming back. What that means to me is that we are all going to be our own factories, this doesn't mean that we are going to be building cars in our homes, but in fact building our futures with new software and technology. 

• How did the book, in your opinion, connect with and enhance what you are learning in ENT 3003?
• From my perspective, this book did a great job of bringing things together and showing me that entrepreneurship is the way of the future in any and every society. If we want to move forward, we have to be willing to be creative and chase our dreams and aspirations. At the same time, we have to be willing to adapt to new technologies and ways for going about things. We cannot be one-dimensional and ignore the fact that the world is constantly changing, and our job is to change with it. This connects to the course specifically because we are learning what it is like to have an idea, and try to capitalize on it no matter what it takes. Whether or not we are all businessmen/businesswomen, we have be willing to make an entrepreneurial step to moving our world forward, and being the innovators for the things our world will be built off of in the future. 

• If you had to design an exercise for this class, based on the book you read, what would that exercise involve?
• If I had to design an exercise for this class, I would have to go with an exercise to do some research and find out the three biggest ways the student thinks the world has changed because of entrepreneurship. This will give the student the ability to reflect on what has changed around them, and what kind of revolutions we have gone through besides the most clear and common ones. 

• What was your biggest surprise or "aha" moment when reading the book? In other words, what did you learn that differed most from your expectations?
• My biggest surprise from this book would have to be the idea that we are all now designers, and what that means is that we are going to soon be responsible for our own products, whether it comes from 3D printing or some other kind of software or technology. This was most surprising to me because this is something that I never would have thought about if I had not read this book, and reflecting on it now gives me the chance to really understand the meaning and message of this book. We have to be the ones to take things into our own hands, and make something great out of it.