civilization starter kit

[pokerfan]

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).

http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski.html (4 minute video)

[Control-Z]

1. Very interesting.

Bookmarking. Thanks.

[provis99]

2. it figures.

an interesting project, yet the first response to the comments is by an Ayn Rand weirdo (the Brown idiot) who is suddenly and incoherently bleating about people can't take his stuff away from him.

I wish conservatives\libertarians\Randbots would quit using the computer and just live in their little caves.

[pokerfan]

3. they don't understand open source or copyleft (n/t)