Marcin Jakubowski - The Open Source Economy
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0:09 - 0:13Marcin says his goal, is to create the open source economy.
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0:13 - 0:18An efficient economy that optimizes both production and distribution,
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0:18 - 0:23while providing environmental regeneration and social justice.
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0:23 - 0:29Please welcome to the Connecting For Change stage, Marcin Jakubowski.
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0:36 - 0:38Thank you! Thank you Calm!
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0:43 - 0:45My name is Marcin,
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0:45 - 0:47I was born in Poland.
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0:47 - 0:49And this is...
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0:56 - 0:57Sorry...
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0:57 - 0:59Ok, you know that, ok.
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1:01 - 1:04This is the town where I was born, my home town.
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1:04 - 1:07And many of my childhood memories are those of Poland's history,
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1:07 - 1:11so my grandfather was in the Polish underground,
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1:11 - 1:15there was during WWII derailing german trains.
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1:15 - 1:19My grandmother was in a concentration camp.
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1:19 - 1:21And my typical memories of the time
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1:21 - 1:25are frolicking in the playground, as any child would,
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1:25 - 1:30but also waiting in line for food, because food was rationed.
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1:30 - 1:34This was the time when tanks were going down the streets, and this was not a parade,
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1:34 - 1:39this was martial law time in Poland, behind the iron curtain.
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1:39 - 1:42There was a clear state of material scarcity.
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1:42 - 1:45When I was ten, my family moved to America things were much better,
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1:45 - 1:49lives transformed, went to Princeton university Wisconsin,
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1:49 - 1:54got a PhD in Fusion energy, but at the same time,
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1:54 - 1:56I never stopped thinking about the terrible things
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1:56 - 2:03that happen when resources are scarce, and people fight over opportunity.
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2:03 - 2:06These memories fueled my belief in freedom
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2:06 - 2:11and I believe that true freedom, the most essential type of freedom
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2:11 - 2:15starts with individual ability to use natural resources
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2:15 - 2:19to free ourselves from material constraints.
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2:19 - 2:22Wherever material scarsity exists in the world, we see
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2:22 - 2:27terible things. Hotspots, resource conflicts, debilitating economies
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2:27 - 2:33empoverished, isolated beings, powerlees to live the full life they want.
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2:33 - 2:38Isn't it ironic that vast populations living in poverty
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2:38 - 2:41are surrounded by the absolut abundance of natural resources
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2:41 - 2:46namely: sunlight, rocks, plants, soil
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2:46 - 2:49from which all of the wealth of the economy comes
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2:49 - 2:54what stands between a human being and what all nature can produce is human created.
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2:54 - 2:59It's all business made. So who in this village for example can access the money
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2:59 - 3:03or even a place to buy a tractor to till the very soil they live on.
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3:04 - 3:09The standard system of capital production distribution work only
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3:09 - 3:11if they create enough artificial scarsity for profit
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3:11 - 3:14and that's the norm the world over.
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3:14 - 3:16So I think we've got a big challenge in front of us.
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3:16 - 3:19And that is: Producing true freedom
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3:19 - 3:23by bypassing the roadblocks to artificial scarcity
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3:23 - 3:30to give as many people as possible to access the know-how and the right tools
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3:30 - 3:36so they can convert their environment's abundant raw resources
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3:36 - 3:38into personal good and freedom.
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3:38 - 3:40And I believe that the answer to this planetary pickle
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3:40 - 3:42which we haven't solved yet at all
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3:42 - 3:44is the open source economy.
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3:45 - 3:47So an Open Source Economy
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3:47 - 3:50is where information flows freely and openly
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3:50 - 3:52so everyone has access at the most fundamental level
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3:52 - 3:57to how to process raw materials into the lifestuff of modern civilization
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3:57 - 3:59Each person has a chance to get involved
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3:59 - 4:02provide improvements and innovations,
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4:02 - 4:05and contribute that all back to a common pool of human knowledge.
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4:05 - 4:08Is it any wonder that open source is accelerating innovation
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4:08 - 4:10in every corner of our lives?
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4:10 - 4:12Imagine one, a hundred brains, and then 1000 brains, then,
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4:12 - 4:14fasten your seatbelts.
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4:16 - 4:19Even though Open Source is happening right in front of our eyes
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4:19 - 4:23many people still behave in denial of the basic proposition
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4:23 - 4:26that increasing innovation
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4:26 - 4:28starts with open collaboration.
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4:29 - 4:33The patent system, trade secrets, and other forms of competitive ways
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4:33 - 4:36stall innovation and economic health.
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4:36 - 4:38Did you know, for example, that last year,
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4:38 - 4:42the spending by Apple and Google on patents
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4:42 - 4:48exceeded spending on research and development of new products?
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4:48 - 4:50But as Open Source picks up speed with
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4:50 - 4:52the adveniment of the cloud, crowd collaboration
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4:52 - 4:55a ton of emerging open source platforms,
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4:55 - 4:58it's becoming increasingly obvious that open source economy
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4:58 - 5:00is the next economy.
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5:02 - 5:04And in that work infrastructure alone
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5:04 - 5:09Open Source Linux servers have now dominated the marketplace
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5:09 - 5:11And an open source hardware association
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5:11 - 5:15aggregates the active DIY and maker community
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5:15 - 5:17to work at world speed
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5:17 - 5:20A business strategist friend of mine told me
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5:20 - 5:23he was asking not whether Open hardware would be a player,
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5:23 - 5:29but when will companies like John Deere, Caterpillar, or JCB in the UK be
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5:29 - 5:32be fundamentally disrupted by the kind of access to equipment
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5:32 - 5:35that an organization like ours is providing.
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5:36 - 5:39But ultimatelly, the question is
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5:39 - 5:43much simpler than a debate whether open or proprietary will win.
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5:43 - 5:46The simple question is:
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5:46 - 5:49Do we want an efficient economy?
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5:49 - 5:50That accelerates innovation,
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5:50 - 5:53and creates sustainable future
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5:53 - 5:55for as many people as possible,
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5:55 - 5:58as fast as possible.
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5:58 - 6:02I say yes! everyday I wake up with the roosters at the farm.
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6:02 - 6:05So i started 8 years ago
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6:05 - 6:08formulating the Open Source Ecology concept
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6:08 - 6:11as an antidote to artificial scarsity
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6:11 - 6:14I started open Souce Ecology as a social enterprise.
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6:15 - 6:17So how would this efficient economy look?
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6:17 - 6:21Would operate locally and totally autonomously
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6:21 - 6:25but freely utilize and share designs and knowledge globally
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6:25 - 6:29It would accelerate innovation, produce efficiencies
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6:29 - 6:32decentralize natural resources, labour, capital
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6:32 - 6:37It would solve problems at the minute they arise.
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6:37 - 6:40due to it's micro-self-funding productivity
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6:40 - 6:43would be replicable, flexible, affordable
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6:43 - 6:47It would give back more to the land that it would take out.
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6:47 - 6:50And most importantly, it would give time back into our lives.
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6:50 - 6:53I was pretty excited about this model
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6:53 - 6:57I could imagine how the reduction in the scale od production
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6:57 - 6:59from global to local
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6:59 - 7:00would bring about a possibility
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7:00 - 7:02of ending resource conflicts
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7:02 - 7:03poverty
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7:03 - 7:04hunger
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7:04 - 7:07And I could imagine even a deeper effect on a personal level.
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7:07 - 7:11Personal autonomy would regain control of our lives
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7:11 - 7:13of our communities.
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7:13 - 7:15And our world.
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7:15 - 7:15If our time is liberated
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7:15 - 7:19we would have time that we can use to care about the rest of the world
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7:19 - 7:24This follows Daniel Pinks notion, that
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7:24 - 7:29"intrinsic motivation is about a type of autonomy
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7:29 - 7:32that allows us to pursue mastery
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7:32 - 7:36that is consistent with higher purpose."
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7:36 - 7:38When this happens inside of people
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7:38 - 7:40the politics shift from money and power as
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7:40 - 7:44the key determinants of personal and political interaction
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7:44 - 7:50to ethics and wisdom as the next force.
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7:50 - 7:52Autonomy is a condition where the scale of an enterprise and
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7:52 - 7:58the scale of a comprehensive economy is reduced to the microscale
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7:58 - 8:04and in that limit, tah is the scale of any land parcel.
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8:04 - 8:07What is artificial material scarsity?
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8:07 - 8:09When you realy think about it,
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8:09 - 8:10all the wealth we enjoy today for a modern standard of living
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8:10 - 8:15relies on rocks, soil, sunlight, plants, water.
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8:15 - 8:20These are all abundant. yet the productive mechanism of society
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8:20 - 8:25is what makes it scarse. And artificially so.
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8:25 - 8:29So if we now create the densest possible
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8:29 - 8:33packing of productive information and technique
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8:33 - 8:36unto the smallest operational scale
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8:36 - 8:39that would be the end of reliance on global systems
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8:39 - 8:45and it's made possible, uniquely by the advent of the digital age.
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8:45 - 8:47It's consistent with D.F. Schumacher's notion that
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8:47 - 8:52"societal organization simply breaks down after reaches a certain scale"
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8:52 - 8:54it's consistent with Gandhi in economics,
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8:54 - 9:00it's consistent with Buckminster Fuller's livinry as opposed to weaponry.
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9:00 - 9:08And it's consistent with Martin Luther King's desire for a governance based on law that transcends the law of man.
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9:10 - 9:13This is because political an legal systems are built upon economies
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9:13 - 9:17and therefor resources in a decent economy, means
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9:17 - 9:18decent governants.
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9:18 - 9:23This is the case where autonomy defined as productivity
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9:23 - 9:25with absolut efficiency and transparency
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9:25 - 9:29gives us freedom to pursue mastery towards a higher purpose.
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9:29 - 9:33Autonomy is what gives us the freedom to pursue ethics
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9:33 - 9:37where our cognitive surplus allows us to look further behind
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9:37 - 9:40than our mere survival.
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9:41 - 9:43So to start this ball rolling
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9:43 - 9:47I turned in my plasma physicist theoretical chalk board
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9:47 - 9:50for a tracer
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9:50 - 9:54and a 38 acre farm int he middle of nowhere, Missouri
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9:54 - 9:55And went to work.
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9:55 - 9:57Ok, but then my tractor broke.
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9:57 - 9:58So I paid to get it repaired.
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9:58 - 10:01Then it broke again.
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10:01 - 10:05And pretty soon, I was broke too.
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10:05 - 10:08So, I realized that the truly effective
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10:08 - 10:11low cost tools that i needed to start a farm and community
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10:11 - 10:13just didn't exist.
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10:13 - 10:17aha! so tools are essential.
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10:17 - 10:21So that made me arrive at the nuts and bolts of the open source economy
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10:21 - 10:25and that is what we are doing by building a Global Village Construction Set.
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10:25 - 10:27It's a set of the 50 industrial machines that it takes
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10:27 - 10:31to build a small civilization with modern conforts.
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10:31 - 10:33We simply take industry standars
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10:33 - 10:38convert them to simple, open source, modular, lifetime design products
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10:38 - 10:40that meet or exceed industry standards,
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10:40 - 10:43at a fraction of the cost.
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10:43 - 10:46More specifically, our machines are 5 times lower cost
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10:46 - 10:50while emboding simplicity, modularity, lifetime design
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10:50 - 10:56that make these about 50 times more cost efficient over their entire life cycle.
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10:56 - 11:00Our means are collaborative production,
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11:01 - 11:04Our business model is helping others replicate our enterprise
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11:04 - 11:08and our goal is mutually assured abundance
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11:10 - 11:12One feature for example of the set
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11:12 - 11:15is that it can be packed into a 40 foot shipment container
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11:15 - 11:19this can be deployed even when there is no
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11:19 - 11:24industrial economy to create an entire modern economy from raw land
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11:24 - 11:28with as few as twelve people
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11:28 - 11:30from local resources
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11:30 - 11:33at no more than 2 hours of work a day
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11:33 - 11:34Does that sound outrageous?
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11:35 - 11:36Impossible?
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11:43 - 11:47Certainty flies in the face of how we live and how we think.
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11:47 - 11:49Working hard means we work a lifetime
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11:49 - 11:53to secure the comforts of life.
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11:53 - 11:56Or perhaps you cant't see yourself building a tractor,
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11:56 - 11:59building a microhouse.
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11:59 - 12:01or a brick press machine.
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12:01 - 12:04But before you run away scared,
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12:04 - 12:05you don't have to do this.
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12:05 - 12:06But we will
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12:06 - 12:08Myself and a dozen others, maybe someone here in this room,
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12:08 - 12:11I invite you the experiment
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12:11 - 12:12The pioneers will trailblaze
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12:12 - 12:15and just a single data point of possibility
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12:15 - 12:18will extend index human possibility,
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12:18 - 12:21potentially to wide replication the world over.
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12:21 - 12:25Starting on a community scale.
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12:25 - 12:27So let me turn to the physical reality of this.
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12:28 - 12:30We started from raw land.
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12:30 - 12:31about 6 years ago.
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12:31 - 12:34An uilt a fclity like this.
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12:34 - 12:36we now have a 4000 sqf fabrication facility
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12:38 - 12:42where we build tractors
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12:42 - 12:45compressed brick presses
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12:45 - 12:47whith which we then build
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12:47 - 12:48this very facility
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12:48 - 12:51We also built a 3000 sqf living unit
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12:51 - 12:54and we are optimizing production.
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12:54 - 12:57such that an inexperienced team of 6 people
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12:57 - 12:58with leadership oversite
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12:58 - 13:00built that brick press in 4 days.
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13:00 - 13:02that was just a few weeks ago.
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13:02 - 13:04And now we aim to build the same in one day.
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13:04 - 13:06And economics...
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13:08 - 13:13There's some real economics significance that we are seeing
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13:13 - 13:16Something like US$ 5000 per day earnings
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13:16 - 13:18because the materials are 4000 ant the product sells for 9000.
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13:18 - 13:25Here we are getting our CNC torch table up and running.
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13:25 - 13:26We built an ironworking machine
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13:26 - 13:29as the core of custom fabrication and metal cutting
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13:29 - 13:30our own hole puncher
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13:30 - 13:31heavy duty drill press
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13:31 - 13:33cold saw
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13:33 - 13:35cnc circuit miller
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13:35 - 13:37and we are becoming quite efficient.
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13:37 - 13:39We aim to build a CEB compresed earth brick living unit
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13:39 - 13:42on a two day time scale
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13:42 - 13:45for 12 x 12 modules
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13:45 - 13:48with double brick walls and straw insulation.
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13:48 - 13:49We are trenching,
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13:49 - 13:51and digging
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13:51 - 13:52with our tractor
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13:52 - 13:58we just got our open source dimensional saw mill for the first run
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13:58 - 14:02And we built other machines
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14:02 - 14:04Like a micro tractor
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14:04 - 14:06Supersized trimmer
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14:06 - 14:07trencher
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14:07 - 14:08hydraulic power unit
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14:08 - 14:09Keyline plow
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14:09 - 14:10and soil pulverizer
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14:10 - 14:12We are just beginning
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14:12 - 14:14And we are reminded every day that we've got a lot to learn.
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14:14 - 14:16But we know where we are going.
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14:16 - 14:18That's the Open Source Economy.
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14:18 - 14:21So here's the current plan.
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14:21 - 14:25First, we develop the 50 GVCStools
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14:25 - 14:28We are right now upgrading our infrastructure
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14:28 - 14:30for collaboration and development
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14:30 - 14:32so that we can go into truly rapid development
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14:32 - 14:34in 2014-2015
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14:34 - 14:36And that fabrication facility that you saw
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14:36 - 14:38we are aiming to show that we can generate
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14:38 - 14:40US$ 80.000 per month
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14:40 - 14:41by product sells
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14:41 - 14:43through collaborative production
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14:43 - 14:44and make it highly replicable
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14:44 - 14:47scalable operation
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14:47 - 14:49So then we can scale this facilities like mad
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14:49 - 14:53That's the business development side of the whole package
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14:53 - 14:55It's starts with teaching people
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14:55 - 14:58the modules to scale to a number of facilities worldwide creating
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14:58 - 15:01an OSE incubator where we would teach people
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15:01 - 15:04deep emergent training for about two years
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15:04 - 15:07And this distributive enterprise fellows
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15:07 - 15:13follow the change model that education should include entrepreneurship
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15:13 - 15:15So then we scale into 144 incubators worldwide
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15:15 - 15:19after the first 12 fellows another 12 fellows class
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15:19 - 15:20small and manageable
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15:20 - 15:22keep the class size small
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15:22 - 15:24And each of these would contain a significant
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15:24 - 15:26research and development arm
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15:26 - 15:27so that you really combine to form
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15:27 - 15:30a formidable open source product development pipeline
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15:30 - 15:32world over
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15:32 - 15:34then we can replicate
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15:34 - 15:35like McDonald's
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15:35 - 15:38so the change modelis
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15:38 - 15:41that simply efficient Open Source production yields
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15:41 - 15:46at a 50 times cost reduction over lifetime compared to industry standards.
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15:46 - 15:51Our brand is about generating absolutely responsible production
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15:51 - 15:54the education model is entrepreneurship
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15:54 - 15:55as a force of change
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15:55 - 15:58to autonomous infrastructure allows for zero overhead operation
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15:58 - 16:02and therefor combination of efficient enterprise best practice,
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16:02 - 16:04entreprise training, autonomous operation
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16:04 - 16:12we are talking about designing this for huge scalability.
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16:13 - 16:16To build the open source economy
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16:16 - 16:19in reality, we are building this to scale
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16:19 - 16:20our goal is decentralized production
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16:20 - 16:23decent production, for sure
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16:23 - 16:25that's not a political ideology.
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16:25 - 16:27I'm just talking about the business case
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16:27 - 16:30for efficient entreprise
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16:30 - 16:32where the traditional concept of scale
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16:32 - 16:34becomes irrelevant
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16:35 - 16:37our new concept of scale
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16:37 - 16:38is about distributing economic power
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16:38 - 16:40far and wide
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16:40 - 16:42and our metric of success is
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16:42 - 16:44the number of independent replications of the GVCS tools
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16:44 - 16:48and the whole package.
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16:49 - 16:52so, this actually shows how we've done since
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16:52 - 16:542008 to 2012.
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16:54 - 16:58We've built a total of 62 prototypes since the community
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16:58 - 17:01in 2011 we had the first ever replication,
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17:01 - 17:04someone in Texas replicated the brick press
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17:04 - 17:07completely from our open source plans
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17:07 - 17:08independently
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17:08 - 17:10and this year we have 13 more replications.
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17:10 - 17:12We are on our way to grow
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17:12 - 17:15There's also a social component to this
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17:15 - 17:18and that means how do you optimize global collaboration
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17:18 - 17:22for a bunch of wildcats to generate a design
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17:22 - 17:26generally designs built in many locations worldwide
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17:26 - 17:27we are just using very simple tools
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17:27 - 17:30like wikis, google docs, sketchup,
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17:30 - 17:32plus other open source tools which reduce the barriers of entry
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17:32 - 17:36so that anybody can literally participate
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17:36 - 17:39We start the process with OSE specifications
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17:39 - 17:44meaning the simplicity, lifetime design, modularity, design for fabrication.
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17:44 - 17:47We focus on the modularity for the quickness of the bills
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17:47 - 17:48and simplicity of design
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17:48 - 17:50it's like Lego blocks
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17:50 - 17:51which, where you build upon modules
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17:51 - 17:53that clearly applies to structures
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17:53 - 17:55but also could apply to things like electronics,
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17:55 - 17:57where little bits is an example of electronics kit
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17:57 - 18:00that people can plug and play with
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18:00 - 18:01and we are scaling that up
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18:01 - 18:03to power electronics
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18:03 - 18:05like induction furnaces
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18:05 - 18:06inverters
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18:06 - 18:07welders
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18:07 - 18:09and others
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18:09 - 18:11we are using collaborative production
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18:11 - 18:13where our goal as i mentioned is to build
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18:13 - 18:15a brick press in 1 day, with 8 people
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18:15 - 18:18when we got down to 4 days the last time
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18:18 - 18:21so where are we with all this today?
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18:21 - 18:23We are currently scaling our organization
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18:23 - 18:25grouping, reorganizing
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18:25 - 18:27really transitioning from vision to institution.
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18:27 - 18:31Just two years ago we run at 1500 per month budget
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18:31 - 18:34and now we've got 500.000 to work with
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18:34 - 18:35we are building a team
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18:35 - 18:37creating strategy, structure
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18:37 - 18:39and process
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18:39 - 18:40and we are also feeling the growing pains
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18:40 - 18:43it's not easy recruiting people
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18:43 - 18:46such as remote designers, onsite fulltime people,
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18:46 - 18:48and volunteers for a dedicated project visit
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18:48 - 18:50so i welcome any of you to apply.
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18:50 - 18:55Our work is about regenerating the world around us
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18:55 - 18:58It's about cleaning our economies
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18:58 - 19:01so that we are not simply forced to steal from others
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19:02 - 19:04by producing within our own communities
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19:06 - 19:07I invite you to join us specially if you are
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19:07 - 19:09a skilled engineer, retired executive
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19:09 - 19:13looking to make a difference in the world
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19:14 - 19:17See my TED talk if you haven't done yet
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19:17 - 19:20It's actually quite popular, with over 1.000.000 hits by now
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19:20 - 19:23you can download a copy of our civilization starter kit
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19:23 - 19:27which contains now version 0.01
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19:27 - 19:29with the plans for the tractor, brick press, pulverizer
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19:29 - 19:31and power unit
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19:31 - 19:33you can build it yourself.
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19:33 - 19:37all the documentation videos and cad, and everything is in there
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19:37 - 19:40And also you can sign in as a true fan
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19:40 - 19:42support us at 10 dollars a month.
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19:42 - 19:45We have about 350 people like that
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19:45 - 19:50people doning from 10 to 100 bucks a month.
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19:50 - 19:55It's the 1.000 true fans concept, originated by Kevin Kelly
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19:55 - 19:59So, also talk to me. I need mentors
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19:59 - 20:00our team needs strategic review
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20:00 - 20:02process development
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20:02 - 20:03technical review
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20:03 - 20:04operations and everything
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20:04 - 20:09So, nobody said that building the world's first Open Source Civilization
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20:09 - 20:11would be easy, but, with the right social process,
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20:11 - 20:14it can be fun
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20:14 - 20:18We are testing the limits of what we all
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20:18 - 20:19can do.
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20:19 - 20:21to make a better world.
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20:21 - 20:23Thank you
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20:23 - 20:34subtitled by OSE Argentina.
- Title:
- Marcin Jakubowski - The Open Source Economy
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http://www.connectingforchange.org Connecting for Change: Bioneers by the Bay conference hosted by the Marion Institute is A SOLUTIONS BASED gathering that brings together a diverse audience to create deep and positive change in their communities. The conference connects the dots between food and farming, health and healing, indigenous knowledge, women and youth leadership, green business and restorative living.
MARCIN JAKUBOWSKI - "Growing up in Poland, and having a grandparent in the concentration camps, I was aware even at an early age what happens when materials are scarce, and people fight over opportunity."
"It's what drove me to identify the 50 machines that are necessary to build a modern economy. 50 machines, from cement mixers to 3D printers to moving vehicles that will allow a working society to be created. My goal, and my daily life, is dedicated to open source these tools, so that anyone - from the remote villages in Third World countries to the rural farms of Missouri, can have access to these meaningful tools to create a better life for themselves. EVERYONE needs access to these tools - it's why we're creating them with an open source model, and with the most advanced digital and physical technology known to us today. Let's be clear...this isn't about mere survival, it's about THRIVING. The intended outcome for these tools is for 12 people working for a mere 2 hours per day, are able to sustain themselves, and take advantage of a modern economy. The goal is to build cities from the ground up, allowing for normal thriving life, while living in harmony with each other, and in harmony with the very nature of the planet we inhabit. With these tools, and with this outcome, I hope to decrease the barriers to human potential - freeing up human capital to achieve their higher goals of awareness and actualization, with an ultimate benefit of freedom for all humanity - for themselves, and for the continued growth of their spirit. And hopefully, the very planet itself."
Marcin came to the U.S. from Poland as a child. He graduated with honors from Princeton and earned his PhD in fusion physics from the University of Wisconsin before shifting direction and starting a hydroponic vegetable farm in Madison, WI. Lacking real experience in practical matters, he then began his education from scratch, and in 2003 he founded Open Source Ecology in order to make closed-loop manufacturing a reality. He began development on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), an open source DIY tool set of 50 different industrial machines necessary to create modern civilization from scrap metal. OSE has prototyped 8 machines and intends to build everything from an induction furnace for melting metals to an open source combine.
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- 20:53
zeitgeisthungary edited English subtitles for Marcin Jakubowski - The Open Source Economy | ||
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zeitgeisthungary edited English subtitles for Marcin Jakubowski - The Open Source Economy | ||
zeitgeisthungary edited English subtitles for Marcin Jakubowski - The Open Source Economy | ||
Sietse Sterrenburg edited English subtitles for Marcin Jakubowski - The Open Source Economy | ||
zeitgeisthungary edited English subtitles for Marcin Jakubowski - The Open Source Economy | ||
Sietse Sterrenburg edited English subtitles for Marcin Jakubowski - The Open Source Economy | ||
Pablo OK edited English subtitles for Marcin Jakubowski - The Open Source Economy |