Open-sourced blueprints for civilization

Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GEMkvT0DEk

Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000). Call it a "civilization starter kit."

Why you should listen to him:

Declaring that, "We can lead self-sustaining lives without sacrificing our standard of living," Marcin Jakubowski believes that only by opening the means of production can we achieve abundance for all. Though he has a Ph.D. in fusion physics, he became dissatisfied with its remoteness, and turned back to the earth as a farmer and social innovator.

He is the founder of Open Source Ecology, which is creating the Global Village Construction Set - the blueprints for simple fabrication of everything needed to start a self-sustaining village. At Factor e Farm in rural Missouri, he's been successfully putting those ideas to the test.

"It's not reinventing the wheel; it's open-sourcing the wheel."

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Topic: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization

Ishina

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