Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization

http://www.ted.com 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).

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[OgreProgrammer]

What I like about this sort of project is that it resurrects the ideals of the American pioneers. People helping each other and sharing ideas isnt communism; its the mighty force that built an amazing country.

It was the loss of the sort of ideals now promoted by Marcin Jakubowski that caused the mess society is in today; not some artificial idea of right and left political movements.

[MrMekune]

You don't seem to understand. This isnt an 'idea' to be developed. It is basically public blueprints to build your own farm equipment. If you cannot follow what is essentially a lego block plan, then you don't deserve the tools that this creates.

It is YOUR job to make this work, not theirs. They are simply giving you the ability to build your own equipment instead of relying on overpriced corporate products that are designed to milk wealth.

[Andalou64]

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[Gort Newton]

Thank you. Google Images turned up huge results. Thanks for that.

[dequantified]

they are network visualization graphics -- a google image search for "network visual" will return something similar

[goeast12]

I can't believe even this turns into a nationalistic p*ssing match. Marcin came to the U.S. when he was 10 years old. He went to Princeton and the University of Wisconsin. He can claim dual citizenship like a lot of other people, including me. Like all other great ideas, this builds on the work of others that came before. Even 30 years ago there was the idea of open source software, and I had a college professor who was obsessed with ideas involving the control of energy for the masses.

[Michael Williams]

I'm a part of a open courseware initiative. We have developed a Free Educational CMS "World Mentoring Academy" is offering FREE Open Courseware. Setup a free user account & select courses with video lectures, Syllabus, Free textbooks when avail., assignments/homework, testing from MIT, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Stanford, U of Mich, Yale along with many of the World's finest University's (1,000+ courses/24-48+ Lectures).

[Gort Newton]

Does anyone know what those two images at the bottom of the screen are at 2.27 ?

The images are kind of spider-web like.

Thanks.

[redreaper2020]

This guy gets mad props for doing something that should've been done a long time ago. This guys' genius.

[OgreProgrammer]

I'm not American.

The point of my comment was that many Americans TODAY see the ideas of "invent it and give it away" and "help each other for free" as being evil, socialist and contrary to their values.

Rather, I said, their ancestors acted in this spirit. They should re-embrace those ideals.

To put it to a point, I was suggesting that their society needs some improvement.

Now, angry one, why don't you consider some improvement of your own? You sound a bit obsessed.