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James Jones's Blog – December 2009 Archive (3)

Observations on "Open Everything"

I was finally able to slow down enough from catching up on things and do a little exploring of the P2P site. And so, had the chance to watch Mr. Bauwens TEDx “Open Everything” presentation .



I was most taken by the observations about the shifts between periods of acceptable norms in society, and their reflected effects on the structure of governance. Especially as it relates to the current transition.



A more concise analogy might be that small independent bubbles form at… Continue

Added by James Jones on December 27, 2009 at 20:00 — 1 Comment

Social Implications of Local Fabrication

Reposted from the CubeSpawn site

As the title implies, there is more to local fabrication than meets the eye.





How would things change (meaning society in general) if local fabrication became the predominant form of production? This is speculative, but some likely consequences emerge:

Converting to local fabrication has at least four potential impacts,



• Improved economic independence

• Significant… Continue

Added by James Jones on December 24, 2009 at 0:00 — No Comments

CubeSpawn

This is a brief re-hash of the basic premise, assumptions, and intents relating to the "CubeSpawn" project.



CubeSpawn is an open source, Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS)



The fundamental premise is two-fold:



1) To provide a hardware framework to encapsulate other open source manufacturing technology.



2) To accelerate the adoption of a System for manufacturing that combines… Continue

Added by James Jones on December 23, 2009 at 22:00 — No Comments

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