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1cover slideGood evening ladies and gentlemen, and first of all, thank you to Jesse De Pinto for organizing this lecture. I am glad to be here. My goal is to present to you about Open Source Ecology - and invite you to collaborate. This year, we are building our relationships to universities, so we can get students involved in our work. In my presentation, I will start with my TED Talk - how many people in the audience have seen it? I will move to our latest results - - student projects, summer internships, volunter service, alternative breaks, workshops, and other opportunities.https://docs.google.com/a/opensourceecology.org/drawings/d/1SIle3lzwj3C1TF4mTUnDS3_C6WYev1UnATl8qJRpzsg/edit
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2contact slideAnd just one more thing. I will pass my tablet around inviting you to sign in. If you sign in, I will send you a followup email with links including a copy of this presentation. The sign-in also asks you if you would like to sign up for our monthly newsletter - and if you are interested in summer internships-or other class-related projects. Also, you can go to facebook.com/OpenSourceEcology to comment on the presentation or send me a message. I have posted about the lecture already - and if you have questions or are interested in collaboration after you see this presentation - you can email me at marcin at opensourceecology.org. I would also like your feedback to make this presentation better. To do that, either send me email - or comment on facebook. Now to the presentation...We start with 4 minutes of my TED Talk. https://docs.google.com/a/opensourceecology.org/drawings/d/1cZlNxskPy-F0idi8yG_EnYwChScbNSn7Wk89AgnqvDo/edit
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3ted talk vid4 minGVCS TED Talk
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450 machines slideWhat motivates me to do this work?
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5poland slideI was born Poland, and many of my childhoood memories are those of Poland’s history. My grandfather was in the Polish underground in WWII derailing German trains, and my grandmother was in a concentration camp.
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6tank on street of PoznanThis is the scene that I saw when I left Poland - tanks rolling down my streets - no - it wasn't a parade. These were the grey times of Martial Law behind the iron curtain - a clear state of material scarcity. When I was 10, my family fled to America where our lives were transformed.
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7PU slideI studied at Princeton - http://prezi.com/g2bvnstudmv2/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
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8UW slideand University of Wisconsin earning a PhD in Plasma Physics, http://prezi.com/g2bvnstudmv2/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
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9chalkboardand discovered that I was useless.http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Progression_Slide
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10Open Source Progression I started Open Source Ecology in my last year of the Ph.D. program. Open Source Ecology is Open Source Meets Ecology meets Economy.
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11raw land slideThat's where we start from raw land like Factor e Farm, our main development facility - 7 years ago - and begin to build.
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128 machines slideIn 2011, at the time of the TED Talk, we had 8 machines built.
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1362 slideBy 2013, we prototyped 15 of the 50 machines.
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14slade replicationIn 2011, the first ever replication happened - by James Slade. He downloaded for free the Liberator Plans and How-To-Videos. He then quit his computer job and started building machines.
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15Green CEBThere are now a dozen replications in 5 countries around the world. Brick press ...http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Charles_Liptaak_Replication
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16Gree Cubeand Power Cube in the USAhttp://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Charles_Liptaak_Replication
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17D&H in LAtractor in the USAhttp://opensourceecology.org/wiki/D%26H_Tractors
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18Guatemala slideGuatemala for the tractorhttp://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Guatemala
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19Italy CEBItalyhttp://opensourceecology.org/wiki/OSE_Italy_CEB_Replication
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20china Brick pressChinahttp://opensourceecology.org/wiki/China_Replication
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21one day lettersWe are working to ONE DAY unleash the maximum in human potential the world over; to give everyone free access to the know-how needed to process the raw materials around them into the life stuff of modern civilization. ONE DAY is not just a philosophical aspiration for freedom or a high hope for the planet. ONE DAY is a metric of efficiency that drives everything that my team and I do.
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22Christmas Gift 2012 videoOn December 18, 2012 - we achieved a major achievement - and built the Liberator Brick press in one day.https://vimeo.com/56274521
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23picture of 1 day production run teamHere is our team. The machine can produce up to 5000 bricks per day - enough for a small house - and the machine costs $4000 in materials. We sell the machine for $9k, and the nearest competitor costs $52k.http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/File:Groupshot.jpg
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24LT 4 night pixin 2012, we also built LifeTrac 4, http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/File:DSC_3829small.jpg
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25LT5 in greensand continued prototyping to LifeTrac 5 and 6 in 2013. http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/LifeTrac_5
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262013 Results VideoHere is our update of results from 2013 - since our historic one day production run of The Liberator Brick Press...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOhAHxOBoGo
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27MicrohouseThe microhouse was our main achievent of the past year..https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152491528091562&set=a.10151381815921562.574965.66469461561&type=1&theater
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28One Day True Freedom letters The pieces of the Global Village Construction Set are coming together. All my experiences fuel my belief in Freedom. I believe that true freedom - the most essential type of freedom - starts with our individual ability to transform abuntant natural resources to free ourselves from material constraints. Artificial material scarcity - is economics 101 of the modern economy - is warfare. That is not our only option, fortunately.
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29Rocks, Sunlight, Plants video.(video up to 2 hrs per day)
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30Self DeterminationLadies and gentlemen, the news is better than ever. We are at a unique point of history where production can so efficient that all vital needs of all indiv can be met so that the struggle for survival is no longer the primary motivation for all human action. It would mean the end of all wasted work and overproduction so that people would have free to direct their mental and physical energy toward other pursuits: autonomy, mastery, and purpose -http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/SelfDeterminationTheory.png
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31Dan Pink pixpopularized by Daniel Pink in his TED Talk on the surprising science of motivation.http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
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32Desktop Factory slideThere is one great swindle that I must expose here - This is known as technological determinism - a popular myth where we assume that some secret force controls control technology - and people don't. We treat it like a God, as it is all-powerful. To be specific, we accept mostly without question - notions such Such as Bigger, Centralized, Corporate Production, Patents, Elite Specialists, VC Capital - all these trappings are taken for granted in the modern economy as the way to prosperity. Careful study reveals that it's not the only route - there are other biz models yet to be developed, flexible specialization being one of them (as in the book The Second Industrial Divide for you technology scholars out there). http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/File:Desktopfac.jpg
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...and open source development being another
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33Lulzbot 3D printerBut the powerful advanced modern tech, like 3D printers - are providing a compelling counterexperience to technical powerlessness to many people. http://www.3dprinter.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Lulzbot-TAZ.jpg
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34tractor danceI slayed my own technological powerlessness when I built a tractor. I admit that this is hard to communicate to someone who has not engaged in some form of direct production/creation. I can tell you that for myself, I want to show to the world how our 50 machines can be built in a single day in a mass parallel social production process - and that likewise, the products of these machines - such as sustainable settlements - can likewise be sprouted. This is the case for the collaborative economy, where the rate of creation and innovation is simply much higher than what we thought was before possible. Then you can conquer common resource conflicts such as povery or war. Tech does not evolve in its own. It is a complete human choice. To deny this would be to deny human agency. We can choose decentralized, accessible, libre, and open source.http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/File:Onframe.jpg
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35patents postingPeople today love the promise and products of a Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. Even though their business model makes them billions - these guys got their business model all wrong. Is it useful that in the modern age, spending by Apple and Google on patents exceeds spending on research and development of new products? Imagine instead Google, Apple, Tesla Motors - and small players sharing knowledge without ego and without the overlay of competitive waste? Then society shifts to solving wicked problems, and transition away from war to human evolution.
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36open for businessHere is what we propose. We are trying to prove that the next trillion dollar economy is not more Steve Jobs and Elon Musk business models, but instread - the open source economy - a model where the standard is to share and publish freely - to unleash innovation and enterprise. We call our model Distributive Enterprise - an open enterprise that also encourages being ripped off by others, while making good business. It's quite unreasonable.http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/File:Openforbiz.jpg
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37Extreme Production VideoHere's our modelhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT79kyvPbAs&feature=youtu.be
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38Extreme production titleThus, our way forward is a combination of Extreme Production Workshops combined with improving our R&D capacity. So how do we create the next trillion dollar economy, the open source economy? First, we examine the traditional business models in the business as usual scenario and compare it to the open source approach.
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39business as usualIn the business as usual case, the genalized model follows 2 main guidelines, summarized as: Guideline 1 - "Good artists create, great artists steal."
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40picasso slidePicasso was apparently good at this.
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41prevent others from The second guideline is - "The greatest artists prevent others from stealing." That is industry standard monopoly capitalism.
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42jobs slideJobs, for example, appeared to be good at that.
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43Open Source business caseIn the open source case, the first guideline still holds. The second guideline is "The greatest artists help others to steal." This means that we encourage others to rip us off - to replicate our enterprise, because it's good for the world. How do we stay in business?
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446 machine image titleRight now, we're preparing 3 day immersion workshops for the brick press, microhouse, and 3D printer, and later in the year - tractor, CNC Torch Table, and laser cutter.https://docs.google.com/a/opensourceecology.org/drawings/d/1lj24hxNXFD0Hnei8HJ5yIm9Wo_-aOfq7tNyEOLU6emU/edit
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456 machine imageThe model is that we sell the experience - an immersion workshop. Second, we will have a client for a product - such as the brick press. Then we funnel all money back into R&D. During the workshop itself, we include design, prototyping, welding training, tool use, documentation, and enterprise models. We capture the documentation to create an improved version of a manual as we do this - where all of our content is cloud editable so we generate the next iteration of content quality. So we are selling education as the first product, and physical hardware as our secondary product.
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19Industrial society promised freedom from need. Freedom of enterprise. When everyone fended for themselves, some starved. Freedom from toil is the benefit of an efficient production machine. However, the practical effect is the opposite. In reality, the system does not advance to a state of freedom. Instead The System imposes itself more upon the human. Marcuse calls techology appeared to provide a necessary condition for freedom. "I'm not sure it's the automation that matters as much as the raw power of techology, for I believe in the symbiosis of human and machine, but not either one or the other overpowering the other. For in the former, that human is a hippie, and in the latter, it's the technoutopian."
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20Pacification - technology that lives in harmony with nature. THe point at which point the production is so efficient that all vital needs of all indiv can be met so that the struggle for survival is no longer the primary motivation for all human action. It would meant the end of all wasted work and overproduction so that people would have free to direct their mental and physical energy toward other pursuits.
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21Industrial society has reached a point where this is possible?
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22there is a common misconception that techology has a life of its own in terms of becoming more efficient. To be specific, we accept notions such Such as Bigger, Centralized, Power Center Model, corporate production, Patents, Elite Specialists, VC capital - all the trappings of what we take for granted. Careful study reveals that it's not the only route - it's that a viable biz model has yet to be developed. This is known as technological determinism - a popular myth where we assume that the specialists and others control technology - and we can't - but the powerful advanced modern tech, like 3D printers - are providing a compelling counterexperience to many people. I admit that this is hard to communicate to someone who has not engaged in some form of direct production/creation. I can tell you that for myself, I want to show to the world how our 50 machines can be built in a single day in a mass parallel process - and that likewise, the products of these machines - such as sustainable settlements - can likewise be sprouted. This is the case for the collaborative economy, where the rate of creation and innovation is simply much higher than what we thought was before possible. Some time ago, I conceptualized, gee, wouldn't it be a good idea if I could show that I need no more than 2 hour of work per day to sustain a modern standard of living - or a drastic reduction of the time that I would otherwise need if I had a job - and not only that- but from abundant local resources. That is I believe the next model of civ 2.0, and by the way, forget resource scarcities and resource conflicts such as povery or war. Tech does not evolve in its own. It is a complete human choice. To deny this would be to deny human agency.
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