TED Talk 2011 - Marcin Jakubowski on the Global Village Construction Set & Open Source Ecology

[namafarm]

Marcin congrats! We've been so busy farming in vt that we just became aware of your fellowship.the dream endures!! Most excellent to hear you guys on NPR the other day! Farm Love, Ama + Nate, NamaFarm

[redcapedjoker]

THIS is awesome! It will helps us survive WW3... the elites weren't planning for this.

[111076tom]

You have planted 100 trees in a day?

My record is 1200... :p

[magictee33]

Getting a PhD in "fusion energy" makes you a great candidate for the unemployment line. Poor career strategy from the start... Obviously, this poor fellow didn't have the right stuff to be a scientist after all that study, so he became a farmer... and failed even at that... and went broke! What kind of qualifications are these? Is this "smart?" C'mon... buying a tractor that looked like it was from WWII ???...Is it any surprise it broke down? Is this the work of a master strategist?

[bL4CK4TT4CK]

@magictee33 where do you get food from? do you even know how to grow a roomplant? how did your forefathers survive without all this technology and feed themselves in good and bad tims so that you were born someday?

could you survive 10 days in the wilderness without a supermarket? you know which plants to eat, if supermarkets and infrastructure were bombed in your area?

if no, SHUT UP cause youre a system-dependend-zombie of the oil-and-plastics-age of this world. -->next level.

[magictee33]

@bL4CK4TT4CK Let's see:

1) It makes no difference what my history is. I presented my thoughts, and reasonable people are welcomed to consider them as they stand on their own.

2) Whether I am a zombie or not, I will express myself as I please.

3) I have lived in the wilderness for as long as three weeks in the past with no help from supermarkets, so does that mean that I now have your permission to express myself?

[magictee33]

@blackattack: Two more things:

1) "youre" is not a word, and sentences are begun with capital letters. You can change lower case to capitals by pressing the little button on the lower left of your keyboard.

2) Your tone and thought patterns indicate to me that you are an internet troll. This will be my last response to your cyber garbage, so have fun getting the last word on me...

[RookOfOnyx]

MORE.

[Janusha]

A European or american person can DO these things and build technology to suit their purpose but this is exactly whats wrong with Africa and African life. They DONT do any of this. They dont have the mental capacity to grab hold of their life, their community, their society and make it better. This is one of the true reasons for the prosperity in Europe (and subsequently america)

[sylwebydd]

@janusha i'm pretty sure there are african people in europe and the us that make things work, it's nothing to do with the people but with the rich countries pushing too much on the poor, how many africans could even get the materials for building this

[Janusha]

@sylwebydd

Yes exactly. They have the mental capacity to thrive in OUR civilization but not enough to create their own. And even in civilized countries they create ghettos, dangerous environments and are vastly over represented in prisons for all kinds of crimes. Mostly violence, theft and and drugs. Pretty basic, primal stuff. They also struggle to follow our education systems. EVERY SINGLE black country are amongst the worst in the world. At some point it must be allowed to call it what it is.

[bL4CK4TT4CK]

@Janusha HA! idiot, go there and try to live there, and see what the conditions are like in those countries!!! your thinkin out of your viewpoint, thats easy. think outside the box.

or do you have a rainmaker and a sunshine-machine in your yard???

[Janusha]

@bL4CK4TT4CK

I wouldnt last 10 days in Africa because most places are inhospitable and dangerous hellholes where life is cheap.

[sylwebydd]

@Janusha or maybe because you're not so smart. FYI civilization started in Africa

[Janusha]

@sylwebydd

Not much has happened since. There wouldnt be a car, a house, hell even a bicycle on that entire continent if Europeans didnt build them.

The one modern invention they seem eager to embrace is the AK47. Because to Africans... Life has always been cheap.

[GridJumping]

This and Mike Rowe's speech have to be the two best TEDs I've ever seen. Bravo.

[ivailoonetwo]

This must involve a restructuring of education, How do we provide everyone from an earlier age with skills to and knowledge to construct simpler and if not more effective hardware than what we know large companies produce because people are taught to a lot of the time to be beyond such ability...especially when people that are involved in that industry still see that what they payed is much better?

[Rembrant65]

What did you pay for the tractor you killed? If you paid $25,000 like your comparison of theirs and ours you are a sucker. See 0:42 in the video.

I would guess the tractor you killed was a 1950's or 60's model. Worth maybe five or six grand. With proper use and maintenance it would be good for many more decades of use. Lets give a micro farmer one like it and another farmer one of yours. Come back in a year and see how they fared.

[Rembrant65]

What the hell did you try to do with that poor tractor? What would have happened if you went with a team of horses? You would of killed them too. Knowing the limits of a tool one of many skills a good farmer knows. You broke the transmission case! What would happen to your open source tractor if you did with it what you did with the tractor you killed.

I don't think this is a practical solution to the problem at hand.

[sylwebydd]

@Rembrant65 whatever he does with his tractor he already knows how it works and how to fix it, the point is to own the tools not just use them, thats's the difference between chimps and humans

[TheOriginalDeckBoy]

Modular, reproduce-able, simple yet effective, robots (including all those outlined in the vid) are certainly the way of the future... Long gone are the days of buying a Toasted Sandwich Maker just for toasting sandwiches! Try and pressure companies by only buying multi purpose tools;)

[drumttocs8]

Yep, beat me to it haha. Can't wait until all the plans are ready

[clayguy1]

I love the make it yourself idea.. How long will it take the for the government to step in and start regulating what you build to plow with.. EPA will force you to.. well cut the emissions.. Unions will be on your door step because your making and laying your own bricks… You just know it will happen.. I loved the video.. just amazing concept.

[GohanMH1]

Jefferson would be proud. This is the rise of engineer-farmer-citizenry. Decentralized production.

M.JAKUBOWSKI FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

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[kokuaguy]

Aloha Marcin, I live in Honolulu and I'm indebted to Peter Sinclair's Climate Denial Crock of the Week for learning about you and your genius. I'm sharing this video with my network here. Do you tell any "Polack Jokes"? In Hawaii we have "Portagee Jokes". They're silly, but my son is part Portuguese and he tells them too. I'm Irish and my favorite Irish Joke is -- We hy did God create whisky? To keep the Irish from ruling the world.

B ^)

[MRNEWSguerillamedia]

absolutely brilliant ideas! I'd love to interview you on the vinny eastwood show

[Willcleaver]

@MRNEWSguerillamedia To get in contact with Marcin send an email to him at OpenSourceEcology at gmail dot com. I'm in the UK at the moment so not in the vicinity to speak to him.

[blasel33]

I'm a 25 year old, soon to graduate Mechanical Engineer and THIS is THE project of our generation!

[cazzograndissimo]

Back to the Future! : My 8th grade educated, self taught mechanic, "lost generation" grandpa built and fixed machines for his business and his small farm from the 1920's thru the 60's with "chewing gum and bailing wire" instead of bankster credit and fiat debt. This is the conciousness current Thirteenth and Millenial generatiuons must embrace if they are to survive the "unraveling"...

[MrTjahzi]

respect ++

[DanSOConnor]

You beat me to it!  Go at it.

[willywillyization]

It's about time I see a Fellow Pole. Jak sie masz? Od Litki

[MrSammo1]

The corporations and been squeezing people out of the system for decades. It's time We The People started squeezing the corporations out.

[TiberiusBrast]

Brilliant Marcin ! you are truly a multitude revolutionary. Search "Multitude Project"

[nerdmom920]

This is such a great idea. Will make it A LOT easier for folks to get back onto the land. I wonder if he does internships.

[Willcleaver]

@nerdmom920 No internships at the moment as open-sourcing the 50 tools is what is currently being worked on. Open collaboration is welcome however for anyone who has the ability to take part in a dedicated project visit to develop any of the technology being worked on.