The Agroinnovations Podcast has recently published the first part of an interview with Andrew Bowyer, the founder and lead researcher on the Reprap Project.  The OSAT revolution continues, and it's just about moving faster than we can keep track of.  To learn more about reprap, listen to the podcast available here.  Part II will be [...]

The argument of mass production versus distributed production at this stage of the game, in my opinion, is a false dichotomy.  Personally, and ideologically, I lean towards distributed production, but I do not think that this has to be at the expense of mass production models of manufacturing.  Mass production will always have a place [...]

After reading what Lucas has been brilliantly putting out over the past 48 hours or so, the picture becomes clearer...we're getting closer.  If anyone needs a quick catch-up, the real edge of the sword is the reprap machine.  As per this website: RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is [a] practical self-copying 3D printer... - [...]

If it's true that what we are doing, while it may help many of us mitigate the chain reaction effects of collapse, might be too little, too late, then we need to really think hard about what will change that circumstance. Lucas has been addressing this over at the Global Swadeshi Network, and I take many [...]

As a movement, we have arrived.  When I first started writing about this topic, the idea was a nascent one, and the movement nearly non-existent.  Now, within less than 24 hours, my last post "Too Little, Too Late" has generated a buzz within our community.   Here are some of the exchanges. Vinay wrote:Another way of thinking [...]