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by lesterbuck 4277 days ago
There are some strong indications that the boom in manufacturing in China is not permanent. With the decline in the importance of labor, the rise of robots, and the importance of protecting IP in manufacturing, Byrnjolfsson and McAfee suggest that much of manufacturing will be coming home over the next few decades.

http://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-Machine-Accelerating-Prod...