TY - BOOK AU - Bainbridge,William Sims TI - Virtual local manufacturing communities: online simulations of future workshop systems T2 - Service systems and innovations in business and society collections, SN - 9781948580731 AV - TJ241 .V578 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) PB - Business Expert Press KW - Computer-aided engineering KW - Manufacturing industries KW - Multiplayer games KW - Rapid prototyping KW - Role playing KW - Social medical KW - Virtual world KW - 3-D printing KW - Artiļ¬cial intelligence KW - Avatar KW - Computer simulation KW - Community KW - Distributed manufacture KW - Globalization KW - Human-computer interaction KW - Electronic books N1 - Chapter 1. Virtual exploration of real possibilities --; Chapter 2. The universe of online virtual worlds --; Chapter 3. Principles of virtual manufacturing --; Chapter 4. Modes of work-related communication --; Chapter 5. Socio-economic structure and dynamics --; Chapter 6. Artificial intelligence in the human-technology system --; Chapter 7 Large-scale technical and cultural variation; 2; b; Also available in printing N2 - This book deeply explores 30 of these production-capable social media, based on thousands of hours of observation and extensive collection of statistical data, extracting hypotheses that may generalize to the real-world distributed manufacturing of the near future. This book begins with an overview of this universe of online virtual worlds then demonstrates the principles of virtual manufacturing, modes of work-related communication, socio-economic structures and dynamics, and the function of artificial intelligence in these human-technology systems. It concludes with consideration of the large-scale technical and cultural variation illustrated both by individual examples and by the rather large industry in which they have long been successful UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ciu.edu?url=https://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/BEPB0000853.html ER -