ted talk: diy hardware as a "starter kit for civilization"
Posted: 14 Apr 2011, 19:49
I thought folks on this list might be interested in a heart-warming 4-minute TED talk by a fusion-energy physicist-turned-farmer describing a very DIY Book Scanner -like effort to open-source design what he identified as the 50 machines needed to run a civilization. Spoiler fact: his community has designed 8 of them so far.