Mr Wilhelm of Instructables does not see a conflict. The DIY movement, he says, “is not anti-capitalist…It’s a backlash against mass market. It’s not like everyone who does DIY is a communist.
It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape.
“Snitchtown” is an essay by Cory Doctorow that first appeared in Forbes.com in June 2007. This SoFoBoMo project is an attempt to illustrate that essay with photographs of some of the 4.2 million CCTV cameras currently estimated to be active in Britain.
When you’re an engineer, designing products for other engineers is technically engaging and fun. You’re basically designing for people who think like you do. Designing for the masses can have an element of drudgery because you may have to intentionally limit products to make them acceptable to non-technical people so they will be mass marketable. Is it possible to do both? That is, can you make something that is technically elegant and capable of modification, yet acceptable as a mass-marketed product? I don’t know for sure, but it’s always fun to dream it is, and if a product like that does come to fruition, it will likely emerge from the open source hardware community. It should be interesting to see what innovations arise from this new trend.
One fifth of China’s energy to come from renewables by 2020
— ok è una proposta. ok ci sono anche le dighe quelle grosse brutte e cattive, ma…(intanto noi si va nella direzione opposta, e la quota di rinnovabili che abbiamo è in grandissima parte fatta di idroelettrico. cose fatte a inizio secolo. quello scorso.
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