SocietyNick Pinkston @nickpinkston

The Return of Meaning

New Education

Accessible Production

Society

Shockwaves of Modernity

A Crisis of Meaning

The Failure of Education

Pessimism

The New Optimism

Maker!History

What’s a Maker?

RootsHippies!

Rise of Computers!Free/Open Source Software!

Radical Left!Hackerspaces!Burning Man!Tech Startups

Powers Combined

Artisanal Movement!MIT Media Lab!

Web 2.0

After 9/11 & Great Recession:

Hackerspaces

Active: 1215 Planned: 357

Media

Industry

Tensions

Things vs. People

Artisanal vs. Scalable

Open vs. Closed

People!+!

Things

Education

Hacker-Scouts.org

Forces of !Production

Warning: We’re going deep

Why care about Production?

Standard of Living!!

Steering Society

Hardware Complexity

Won’t 3D printers save us all?

The Manufacturing Ecology

Digitize all the processes!

Subtractive Cast / Form

Post-Process AssemblyInspection

Additive

Design Tools for All

Reality Ripping: CT Scan

Dematerialization

Manufacturing: !The Next Agriculture

Democratizing the !!

Means of Production

Market Cap Per Employee

The Democratization Paradox:

The greater the power of tools, the fewer people

capture the value.

Nothing is ever democratized

Stacktivism:The Politics of Infrastructure

Conclusions

ConclusionsThe Return of Meaning

New Education

Accessible Production

Our ChargeHumans over Hardware

Pragmatism over Dogma

Make: Society