

Your Life Is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better
內容簡介
科普全球製造系統,有意識的消費共創永續
我們購買的東西究竟怎麼來的?
製作一條牛仔褲需耗費數千公升的水?
智慧型手機來到我們手中的里程可以環繞世界6次?
從大型工廠、工程實驗室、海港,到配送中心、線上下商店,最後被我們購買,劍橋大學製造研究所所長Tim Minshall 開箱每段旅程,探索這個令人敬畏的全球製造系統,激勵我們有意識的消費並創造永續。
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我們有多少次停下來思考:我們購買的東西到底來自哪裡?
我們生活在一個製造的世界中。
除非你赤裸裸地漂浮在太空中,否則你現在正直接接觸著許多工廠製造的產品。
在我們周圍,存在著一個幾乎無形、令人敬畏的全球製造系統,支撐著我們生活幾乎每一個層面。
我們周圍的事物,幾乎絕大多數都消耗巨大的能源或經歷了驚人且複雜的旅程,最終才到達我們手中,例如製作一條牛仔褲需要耗費數千公升的水,製造智慧型手機的來到我們手中的公里數,可以環繞世界六次。
從大型工廠、工程實驗室、海港,到配送中心、超市,再到我們自己的家中,
劍橋大學工程系教授Tim Minshall追溯這些旅程,揭示了製造業的隱秘世界。
本書在描繪這個世界如何形成的過程中,揭示了製造業對我們生活和自然世界的深遠影響,並探索了它如何為我們提供一條通往真正可持續發展、更公平未來的道路。
通過這本書,Minshall 給予我們做出更好選擇的能力,無論是對我們自己、我們的社區,還是對地球。
From an award-winning and internationally-renowned expert, a wonderfully illuminating journey through the world of manufacturing and its transformational influence on our lives - and the world around us.
We live in a manufactured world. Unless you are floating naked through space, you are right now in direct contact with multiple manufactured products. How often do we stop to think: where do the things we buy actually come from?
There exists a nearly invisible, awe-inspiring global system of manufacturing that enables virtually every aspect of our existence. The things we surround ourselves with take surprising and often byzantine journeys to reach us - be it the thousands of litres of water needed to make a single pair of jeans or the components of our smartphones travelling over six times around the world to reach us.
From mega-factory floors, engineering laboratories and seaports to distribution hubs, supermarkets and our own homes, Tim Minshall traces these journeys to reveal the hidden world of manufacturing.
Charting how this world came to be, Your Life is Manufactured reveals the seismic impact manufacturing has had on our lives and the natural world, exploring how it could offer us a path to a truly sustainable, more equitable future. In doing so, Minshall grants us the ability to make better choices for ourselves, our communities and the planet.
作者介紹
Tim Minshall is the inaugural Dr John C. Taylor Professor of Innovation at the University of Cambridge, the head of the Engineering Department's Institute for Manufacturing and a fellow of Churchill College. His research, teaching and outreach are focused on the links between manufacturing and innovation. He lives in Cambridge with his scientist wife, Nicola.
各界推薦
Many of us won't have given a moment's thought to how all the things we use are made. This brilliant book shows that manufacturing is foundational to our lives, not only now but also if there is to be any hope for a sustainable future. I learned something new on every page. -- Professor Diane Coyle
Reading this book is like being given a personal tour of the world's factories by a real-life Willy Wonka. Brimming with insight, curiosity and wit, Tim is a masterful storyteller of the manufactured world; I'll never look at a brownie in the same way again. -- Dr Anna Ploszajski ― author of Handmade: A Scientist’s Search for Meaning Through Making
As a proud manufacturer for over three decades, Tim Minshall's book, Your Life is Manufactured, is music to my years. We all take manufacturing of the products we use and consume day in and day out for granted. Your Life is Manufactured brings manufacturing to life, communicating with crystal clarity every aspect of manufacturing with superb real-life examples galore. It is literally the A-Z of manufacturing in one book! -- Lord Karan Bilimoria CBE
This is a remarkable book on manufacturing! Captivating from the opening, it's a book that both experts and newcomers will thoroughly enjoy. By blending everyday experiences with deep research, Tim has turned the world of manufacturing into a relatable and compelling story. -- Professor Dr. Torbjørn Netland
Your Life is Manufactured manages to be both a wonderful overview and pleasurable and eye opening deep dive. An illuminating and at times mind-boggling exploration of a global choreography that means I won't look at my kettle the same way again. ― Zoe Laughlin, co-founder and Director of the Institute of Making at University College London
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