
Robert Scoble interviewed (
MP4, 53 MB ) with Lon Safko, the founder of
Papermodelsonline.com business. He creates paper models on the computer and sells these digital “patterns” PDF, as well as three-dimensional DXF-files via the Internet from ten dollars apiece. Every habrachelovek who glued
futurico-bots with his own hands could become a potential client of Safko.
Lon Safko says in an interview that paper models are no high-tech, but a lutek. Such things have been done in Japan for hundreds of years, but they appeared only recently in the Western world. Here his site is absolutely unique.
In the online store Lon Safko you can find anything: historic buildings, modern cars, airplanes and spacecraft, animals, stadiums. All this can be paid and downloaded. An enterprising American has an absolutely electronic business: he creates an electronic product on a computer and sells it in an online store for electronic money. Neither hired personnel, nor a warehouse - nothing is needed. Creativity is directly converted into money.
By the way, some primitive models from Papermodelsonline.com can be downloaded for free. Here are direct links to PDF.