1 00:00:08,539 --> 00:00:13,179 Marcin says his goal, is to create the open source economy. 2 00:00:13,179 --> 00:00:17,632 An efficient economy that optimizes both production and distribution, 3 00:00:17,632 --> 00:00:22,547 while providing environmental regeneration and social justice. 4 00:00:22,547 --> 00:00:28,877 Please welcome to the Connecting For Change stage, Marcin Jakubowski. 5 00:00:35,590 --> 00:00:38,214 Thank you! Thank you Calm! 6 00:00:43,276 --> 00:00:45,315 My name is Marcin, 7 00:00:45,315 --> 00:00:46,844 I was born in Poland. 8 00:00:46,844 --> 00:00:48,577 And this is... 9 00:00:56,035 --> 00:00:57,345 Sorry... 10 00:00:57,345 --> 00:00:59,333 Ok, you know that, ok. 11 00:01:01,192 --> 00:01:03,577 This is the town where I was born, my home town. 12 00:01:03,577 --> 00:01:07,228 And many of my childhood memories are those of Poland's history, 13 00:01:07,228 --> 00:01:10,710 so my grandfather was in the Polish underground, 14 00:01:10,710 --> 00:01:14,962 there was during WWII derailing german trains. 15 00:01:14,962 --> 00:01:18,698 My grandmother was in a concentration camp. 16 00:01:18,698 --> 00:01:21,295 And my typical memories of the time 17 00:01:21,295 --> 00:01:25,399 are frolicking in the playground, as any child would, 18 00:01:25,399 --> 00:01:30,072 but also waiting in line for food, because food was rationed. 19 00:01:30,072 --> 00:01:34,299 This was the time when tanks were going down the streets, and this was not a parade, 20 00:01:34,299 --> 00:01:38,699 this was martial law time in Poland, behind the iron curtain. 21 00:01:38,699 --> 00:01:41,903 There was a clear state of material scarcity. 22 00:01:41,903 --> 00:01:45,095 When I was ten, my family moved to America things were much better, 23 00:01:45,095 --> 00:01:48,841 lives transformed, went to Princeton university Wisconsin, 24 00:01:48,841 --> 00:01:54,182 got a PhD in Fusion energy, but at the same time, 25 00:01:54,182 --> 00:01:56,233 I never stopped thinking about the terrible things 26 00:01:56,233 --> 00:02:02,659 that happen when resources are scarce, and people fight over opportunity. 27 00:02:02,659 --> 00:02:06,355 These memories fueled my belief in freedom 28 00:02:06,355 --> 00:02:10,973 and I believe that true freedom, the most essential type of freedom 29 00:02:10,973 --> 00:02:14,863 starts with individual ability to use natural resources 30 00:02:14,863 --> 00:02:18,768 to free ourselves from material constraints. 31 00:02:18,768 --> 00:02:21,832 Wherever material scarsity exists in the world, we see 32 00:02:21,832 --> 00:02:27,070 terible things. Hotspots, resource conflicts, debilitating economies 33 00:02:27,070 --> 00:02:32,827 empoverished, isolated beings, powerlees to live the full life they want. 34 00:02:32,827 --> 00:02:37,676 Isn't it ironic that vast populations living in poverty 35 00:02:37,676 --> 00:02:41,241 are surrounded by the absolut abundance of natural resources 36 00:02:41,241 --> 00:02:45,794 namely: sunlight, rocks, plants, soil 37 00:02:45,794 --> 00:02:49,250 from which all of the wealth of the economy comes 38 00:02:49,250 --> 00:02:53,897 what stands between a human being and what all nature can produce is human created. 39 00:02:53,897 --> 00:02:58,770 It's all business made. So who in this village for example can access the money 40 00:02:58,770 --> 00:03:03,253 or even a place to buy a tractor to till the very soil they live on. 41 00:03:04,114 --> 00:03:08,700 The standard system of capital production distribution work only 42 00:03:08,700 --> 00:03:11,432 if they create enough artificial scarsity for profit 43 00:03:11,432 --> 00:03:13,701 and that's the norm the world over. 44 00:03:13,701 --> 00:03:16,370 So I think we've got a big challenge in front of us. 45 00:03:16,370 --> 00:03:19,072 And that is: Producing true freedom 46 00:03:19,072 --> 00:03:23,287 by bypassing the roadblocks to artificial scarcity 47 00:03:23,287 --> 00:03:30,225 to give as many people as possible to access the know-how and the right tools 48 00:03:30,225 --> 00:03:35,521 so they can convert their environment's abundant raw resources 49 00:03:35,521 --> 00:03:37,611 into personal good and freedom. 50 00:03:37,611 --> 00:03:40,419 And I believe that the answer to this planetary pickle 51 00:03:40,419 --> 00:03:42,338 which we haven't solved yet at all 52 00:03:42,338 --> 00:03:43,846 is the open source economy. 53 00:03:45,057 --> 00:03:46,862 So an Open Source Economy 54 00:03:46,862 --> 00:03:49,951 is where information flows freely and openly 55 00:03:49,951 --> 00:03:52,122 so everyone has access at the most fundamental level 56 00:03:52,122 --> 00:03:57,486 to how to process raw materials into the lifestuff of modern civilization 57 00:03:57,486 --> 00:03:59,485 Each person has a chance to get involved 58 00:03:59,485 --> 00:04:01,802 provide improvements and innovations, 59 00:04:01,802 --> 00:04:04,770 and contribute that all back to a common pool of human knowledge. 60 00:04:04,770 --> 00:04:07,638 Is it any wonder that open source is accelerating innovation 61 00:04:07,638 --> 00:04:10,208 in every corner of our lives? 62 00:04:10,208 --> 00:04:12,223 Imagine one, a hundred brains, and then 1000 brains, then, 63 00:04:12,223 --> 00:04:14,425 fasten your seatbelts. 64 00:04:15,777 --> 00:04:19,457 Even though Open Source is happening right in front of our eyes 65 00:04:19,458 --> 00:04:23,435 many people still behave in denial of the basic proposition 66 00:04:23,435 --> 00:04:25,879 that increasing innovation 67 00:04:25,879 --> 00:04:28,364 starts with open collaboration. 68 00:04:29,408 --> 00:04:32,539 The patent system, trade secrets, and other forms of competitive ways 69 00:04:32,539 --> 00:04:35,853 stall innovation and economic health. 70 00:04:35,853 --> 00:04:38,126 Did you know, for example, that last year, 71 00:04:38,126 --> 00:04:42,385 the spending by Apple and Google on patents 72 00:04:42,385 --> 00:04:47,774 exceeded spending on research and development of new products? 73 00:04:47,774 --> 00:04:50,007 But as Open Source picks up speed with 74 00:04:50,007 --> 00:04:52,199 the adveniment of the cloud, crowd collaboration 75 00:04:52,199 --> 00:04:54,559 a ton of emerging open source platforms, 76 00:04:54,559 --> 00:04:57,988 it's becoming increasingly obvious that open source economy 77 00:04:57,988 --> 00:05:00,332 is the next economy. 78 00:05:01,818 --> 00:05:03,873 And in that work infrastructure alone 79 00:05:03,873 --> 00:05:09,222 Open Source Linux servers have now dominated the marketplace 80 00:05:09,222 --> 00:05:11,407 And an open source hardware association 81 00:05:11,407 --> 00:05:14,540 aggregates the active DIY and maker community 82 00:05:14,540 --> 00:05:16,569 to work at world speed 83 00:05:17,337 --> 00:05:19,951 A business strategist friend of mine told me 84 00:05:19,951 --> 00:05:23,321 he was asking not whether Open hardware would be a player, 85 00:05:23,321 --> 00:05:28,703 but when will companies like John Deere, Caterpillar, or JCB in the UK be 86 00:05:28,703 --> 00:05:32,346 be fundamentally disrupted by the kind of access to equipment 87 00:05:32,391 --> 00:05:34,993 that an organization like ours is providing. 88 00:05:36,124 --> 00:05:38,793 But ultimatelly, the question is 89 00:05:38,793 --> 00:05:42,740 much simpler than a debate whether open or proprietary will win. 90 00:05:42,740 --> 00:05:45,560 The simple question is: 91 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,575 Do we want an efficient economy? 92 00:05:48,575 --> 00:05:50,438 That accelerates innovation, 93 00:05:50,438 --> 00:05:52,522 and creates sustainable future 94 00:05:52,522 --> 00:05:54,519 for as many people as possible, 95 00:05:54,519 --> 00:05:57,653 as fast as possible. 96 00:05:57,653 --> 00:06:02,274 I say yes! everyday I wake up with the roosters at the farm. 97 00:06:02,274 --> 00:06:04,507 So i started 8 years ago 98 00:06:04,507 --> 00:06:08,236 formulating the Open Source Ecology concept 99 00:06:08,236 --> 00:06:10,860 as an antidote to artificial scarsity 100 00:06:10,860 --> 00:06:14,227 I started open Souce Ecology as a social enterprise. 101 00:06:14,868 --> 00:06:16,851 So how would this efficient economy look? 102 00:06:16,851 --> 00:06:21,343 Would operate locally and totally autonomously 103 00:06:21,343 --> 00:06:25,435 but freely utilize and share designs and knowledge globally 104 00:06:25,435 --> 00:06:29,009 It would accelerate innovation, produce efficiencies 105 00:06:29,009 --> 00:06:32,339 decentralize natural resources, labour, capital 106 00:06:32,339 --> 00:06:36,741 It would solve problems at the minute they arise. 107 00:06:36,741 --> 00:06:39,623 due to it's micro-self-funding productivity 108 00:06:39,623 --> 00:06:43,287 would be replicable, flexible, affordable 109 00:06:43,287 --> 00:06:46,671 It would give back more to the land that it would take out. 110 00:06:46,671 --> 00:06:50,054 And most importantly, it would give time back into our lives. 111 00:06:50,054 --> 00:06:53,370 I was pretty excited about this model 112 00:06:53,370 --> 00:06:56,708 I could imagine how the reduction in the scale od production 113 00:06:56,708 --> 00:06:58,686 from global to local 114 00:06:58,686 --> 00:07:00,494 would bring about a possibility 115 00:07:00,494 --> 00:07:02,171 of ending resource conflicts 116 00:07:02,171 --> 00:07:03,074 poverty 117 00:07:03,074 --> 00:07:04,169 hunger 118 00:07:04,169 --> 00:07:07,376 And I could imagine even a deeper effect on a personal level. 119 00:07:07,376 --> 00:07:10,718 Personal autonomy would regain control of our lives 120 00:07:10,718 --> 00:07:12,640 of our communities. 121 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,136 And our world. 122 00:07:15,136 --> 00:07:15,270 If our time is liberated 123 00:07:15,270 --> 00:07:18,668 we would have time that we can use to care about the rest of the world 124 00:07:18,668 --> 00:07:24,416 This follows Daniel Pinks notion, that 125 00:07:24,416 --> 00:07:29,008 "intrinsic motivation is about a type of autonomy 126 00:07:29,008 --> 00:07:31,851 that allows us to pursue mastery 127 00:07:31,851 --> 00:07:35,674 that is consistent with higher purpose." 128 00:07:35,674 --> 00:07:37,807 When this happens inside of people 129 00:07:38,438 --> 00:07:40,476 the politics shift from money and power as 130 00:07:40,476 --> 00:07:43,524 the key determinants of personal and political interaction 131 00:07:43,524 --> 00:07:49,601 to ethics and wisdom as the next force. 132 00:07:49,601 --> 00:07:52,392 Autonomy is a condition where the scale of an enterprise and 133 00:07:52,392 --> 00:07:58,307 the scale of a comprehensive economy is reduced to the microscale 134 00:07:58,307 --> 00:08:04,211 and in that limit, tah is the scale of any land parcel. 135 00:08:04,211 --> 00:08:06,770 What is artificial material scarsity? 136 00:08:06,770 --> 00:08:08,722 When you realy think about it, 137 00:08:08,722 --> 00:08:10,453 all the wealth we enjoy today for a modern standard of living 138 00:08:10,453 --> 00:08:15,004 relies on rocks, soil, sunlight, plants, water. 139 00:08:15,004 --> 00:08:20,119 These are all abundant. yet the productive mechanism of society 140 00:08:20,119 --> 00:08:25,057 is what makes it scarse. And artificially so. 141 00:08:25,057 --> 00:08:29,090 So if we now create the densest possible 142 00:08:29,090 --> 00:08:32,723 packing of productive information and technique 143 00:08:32,723 --> 00:08:36,326 unto the smallest operational scale 144 00:08:36,326 --> 00:08:39,286 that would be the end of reliance on global systems 145 00:08:39,286 --> 00:08:44,572 and it's made possible, uniquely by the advent of the digital age. 146 00:08:44,572 --> 00:08:47,189 It's consistent with D.F. Schumacher's notion that 147 00:08:47,189 --> 00:08:52,385 "societal organization simply breaks down after reaches a certain scale" 148 00:08:52,385 --> 00:08:54,467 it's consistent with Gandhi in economics, 149 00:08:54,467 --> 00:09:00,209 it's consistent with Buckminster Fuller's livinry as opposed to weaponry. 150 00:09:00,209 --> 00:09:08,207 And it's consistent with Martin Luther King's desire for a governance based on law that transcends the law of man. 151 00:09:10,158 --> 00:09:13,305 This is because political an legal systems are built upon economies 152 00:09:13,305 --> 00:09:16,791 and therefor resources in a decent economy, means 153 00:09:16,791 --> 00:09:18,155 decent governants. 154 00:09:18,155 --> 00:09:23,442 This is the case where autonomy defined as productivity 155 00:09:23,442 --> 00:09:25,395 with absolut efficiency and transparency 156 00:09:25,395 --> 00:09:28,908 gives us freedom to pursue mastery towards a higher purpose. 157 00:09:28,908 --> 00:09:32,620 Autonomy is what gives us the freedom to pursue ethics 158 00:09:32,620 --> 00:09:36,860 where our cognitive surplus allows us to look further behind 159 00:09:36,860 --> 00:09:39,924 than our mere survival. 160 00:09:40,751 --> 00:09:43,126 So to start this ball rolling 161 00:09:43,126 --> 00:09:47,309 I turned in my plasma physicist theoretical chalk board 162 00:09:47,309 --> 00:09:49,776 for a tracer 163 00:09:49,776 --> 00:09:54,185 and a 38 acre farm int he middle of nowhere, Missouri 164 00:09:54,185 --> 00:09:55,041 And went to work. 165 00:09:55,041 --> 00:09:56,676 Ok, but then my tractor broke. 166 00:09:56,676 --> 00:09:58,485 So I paid to get it repaired. 167 00:09:58,485 --> 00:10:00,508 Then it broke again. 168 00:10:00,508 --> 00:10:04,534 And pretty soon, I was broke too. 169 00:10:04,534 --> 00:10:07,719 So, I realized that the truly effective 170 00:10:07,719 --> 00:10:10,895 low cost tools that i needed to start a farm and community 171 00:10:10,895 --> 00:10:13,275 just didn't exist. 172 00:10:13,275 --> 00:10:16,838 aha! so tools are essential. 173 00:10:16,838 --> 00:10:21,287 So that made me arrive at the nuts and bolts of the open source economy 174 00:10:21,287 --> 00:10:24,958 and that is what we are doing by building a Global Village Construction Set. 175 00:10:24,958 --> 00:10:27,343 It's a set of the 50 industrial machines that it takes 176 00:10:27,343 --> 00:10:30,742 to build a small civilization with modern conforts. 177 00:10:30,742 --> 00:10:32,921 We simply take industry standars 178 00:10:32,921 --> 00:10:37,673 convert them to simple, open source, modular, lifetime design products 179 00:10:37,673 --> 00:10:40,355 that meet or exceed industry standards, 180 00:10:40,355 --> 00:10:42,592 at a fraction of the cost. 181 00:10:42,592 --> 00:10:46,157 More specifically, our machines are 5 times lower cost 182 00:10:46,157 --> 00:10:50,286 while emboding simplicity, modularity, lifetime design 183 00:10:50,286 --> 00:10:56,059 that make these about 50 times more cost efficient over their entire life cycle. 184 00:10:56,059 --> 00:10:59,670 Our means are collaborative production, 185 00:11:00,687 --> 00:11:03,743 Our business model is helping others replicate our enterprise 186 00:11:03,743 --> 00:11:08,157 and our goal is mutually assured abundance 187 00:11:09,761 --> 00:11:11,759 One feature for example of the set 188 00:11:11,959 --> 00:11:14,872 is that it can be packed into a 40 foot shipment container 189 00:11:14,872 --> 00:11:19,101 this can be deployed even when there is no 190 00:11:19,101 --> 00:11:23,888 industrial economy to create an entire modern economy from raw land 191 00:11:23,888 --> 00:11:28,070 with as few as twelve people 192 00:11:28,070 --> 00:11:29,934 from local resources 193 00:11:29,934 --> 00:11:32,841 at no more than 2 hours of work a day 194 00:11:32,841 --> 00:11:34,400 Does that sound outrageous? 195 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:35,907 Impossible? 196 00:11:43,203 --> 00:11:47,425 Certainty flies in the face of how we live and how we think. 197 00:11:47,425 --> 00:11:49,243 Working hard means we work a lifetime 198 00:11:49,243 --> 00:11:53,225 to secure the comforts of life. 199 00:11:53,225 --> 00:11:56,476 Or perhaps you cant't see yourself building a tractor, 200 00:11:56,476 --> 00:11:58,559 building a microhouse. 201 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:00,643 or a brick press machine. 202 00:12:00,643 --> 00:12:03,791 But before you run away scared, 203 00:12:03,791 --> 00:12:05,029 you don't have to do this. 204 00:12:05,029 --> 00:12:06,219 But we will 205 00:12:06,219 --> 00:12:08,238 Myself and a dozen others, maybe someone here in this room, 206 00:12:08,238 --> 00:12:10,620 I invite you the experiment 207 00:12:10,620 --> 00:12:12,476 The pioneers will trailblaze 208 00:12:12,476 --> 00:12:15,055 and just a single data point of possibility 209 00:12:15,055 --> 00:12:18,438 will extend index human possibility, 210 00:12:18,438 --> 00:12:20,937 potentially to wide replication the world over. 211 00:12:20,937 --> 00:12:25,293 Starting on a community scale. 212 00:12:25,293 --> 00:12:27,156 So let me turn to the physical reality of this. 213 00:12:27,985 --> 00:12:29,602 We started from raw land. 214 00:12:29,953 --> 00:12:31,192 about 6 years ago. 215 00:12:31,369 --> 00:12:34,055 An uilt a fclity like this. 216 00:12:34,055 --> 00:12:36,104 we now have a 4000 sqf fabrication facility 217 00:12:37,519 --> 00:12:42,139 where we build tractors 218 00:12:42,139 --> 00:12:44,538 compressed brick presses 219 00:12:44,538 --> 00:12:46,541 whith which we then build 220 00:12:46,541 --> 00:12:48,186 this very facility 221 00:12:48,186 --> 00:12:50,624 We also built a 3000 sqf living unit 222 00:12:50,624 --> 00:12:54,039 and we are optimizing production. 223 00:12:54,039 --> 00:12:56,827 such that an inexperienced team of 6 people 224 00:12:56,827 --> 00:12:58,278 with leadership oversite 225 00:12:58,278 --> 00:13:00,127 built that brick press in 4 days. 226 00:13:00,127 --> 00:13:01,778 that was just a few weeks ago. 227 00:13:01,778 --> 00:13:04,488 And now we aim to build the same in one day. 228 00:13:04,488 --> 00:13:05,837 And economics... 229 00:13:07,860 --> 00:13:12,688 There's some real economics significance that we are seeing 230 00:13:12,688 --> 00:13:15,570 Something like US$ 5000 per day earnings 231 00:13:15,570 --> 00:13:18,439 because the materials are 4000 ant the product sells for 9000. 232 00:13:18,439 --> 00:13:24,539 Here we are getting our CNC torch table up and running. 233 00:13:24,539 --> 00:13:26,107 We built an ironworking machine 234 00:13:26,107 --> 00:13:28,704 as the core of custom fabrication and metal cutting 235 00:13:28,704 --> 00:13:30,144 our own hole puncher 236 00:13:30,144 --> 00:13:31,425 heavy duty drill press 237 00:13:31,425 --> 00:13:33,307 cold saw 238 00:13:33,307 --> 00:13:35,403 cnc circuit miller 239 00:13:35,403 --> 00:13:36,777 and we are becoming quite efficient. 240 00:13:36,777 --> 00:13:39,292 We aim to build a CEB compresed earth brick living unit 241 00:13:39,292 --> 00:13:42,186 on a two day time scale 242 00:13:42,186 --> 00:13:44,844 for 12 x 12 modules 243 00:13:44,844 --> 00:13:47,802 with double brick walls and straw insulation. 244 00:13:47,802 --> 00:13:49,207 We are trenching, 245 00:13:49,207 --> 00:13:50,638 and digging 246 00:13:50,638 --> 00:13:52,222 with our tractor 247 00:13:52,222 --> 00:13:58,260 we just got our open source dimensional saw mill for the first run 248 00:13:58,260 --> 00:14:02,255 And we built other machines 249 00:14:02,255 --> 00:14:04,072 Like a micro tractor 250 00:14:04,072 --> 00:14:05,827 Supersized trimmer 251 00:14:05,827 --> 00:14:06,705 trencher 252 00:14:06,705 --> 00:14:07,859 hydraulic power unit 253 00:14:07,859 --> 00:14:08,804 Keyline plow 254 00:14:08,804 --> 00:14:10,121 and soil pulverizer 255 00:14:10,121 --> 00:14:11,623 We are just beginning 256 00:14:11,623 --> 00:14:14,492 And we are reminded every day that we've got a lot to learn. 257 00:14:14,492 --> 00:14:15,707 But we know where we are going. 258 00:14:15,707 --> 00:14:18,078 That's the Open Source Economy. 259 00:14:18,078 --> 00:14:20,790 So here's the current plan. 260 00:14:20,790 --> 00:14:25,356 First, we develop the 50 GVCStools 261 00:14:25,356 --> 00:14:28,177 We are right now upgrading our infrastructure 262 00:14:28,177 --> 00:14:29,609 for collaboration and development 263 00:14:29,609 --> 00:14:31,668 so that we can go into truly rapid development 264 00:14:31,668 --> 00:14:34,223 in 2014-2015 265 00:14:34,223 --> 00:14:36,093 And that fabrication facility that you saw 266 00:14:36,093 --> 00:14:38,045 we are aiming to show that we can generate 267 00:14:38,045 --> 00:14:39,755 US$ 80.000 per month 268 00:14:39,755 --> 00:14:41,112 by product sells 269 00:14:41,112 --> 00:14:42,589 through collaborative production 270 00:14:42,589 --> 00:14:44,304 and make it highly replicable 271 00:14:44,304 --> 00:14:47,303 scalable operation 272 00:14:47,303 --> 00:14:48,878 So then we can scale this facilities like mad 273 00:14:48,878 --> 00:14:52,889 That's the business development side of the whole package 274 00:14:52,889 --> 00:14:54,794 It's starts with teaching people 275 00:14:54,794 --> 00:14:57,969 the modules to scale to a number of facilities worldwide creating 276 00:14:57,969 --> 00:15:01,222 an OSE incubator where we would teach people 277 00:15:01,222 --> 00:15:04,489 deep emergent training for about two years 278 00:15:04,489 --> 00:15:07,107 And this distributive enterprise fellows 279 00:15:07,107 --> 00:15:12,528 follow the change model that education should include entrepreneurship 280 00:15:12,528 --> 00:15:14,876 So then we scale into 144 incubators worldwide 281 00:15:14,876 --> 00:15:18,690 after the first 12 fellows another 12 fellows class 282 00:15:18,690 --> 00:15:19,961 small and manageable 283 00:15:19,961 --> 00:15:22,341 keep the class size small 284 00:15:22,341 --> 00:15:24,189 And each of these would contain a significant 285 00:15:24,189 --> 00:15:25,794 research and development arm 286 00:15:25,794 --> 00:15:27,457 so that you really combine to form 287 00:15:27,457 --> 00:15:30,058 a formidable open source product development pipeline 288 00:15:30,058 --> 00:15:32,390 world over 289 00:15:32,390 --> 00:15:33,776 then we can replicate 290 00:15:33,776 --> 00:15:35,461 like McDonald's 291 00:15:35,461 --> 00:15:37,873 so the change modelis 292 00:15:37,873 --> 00:15:40,943 that simply efficient Open Source production yields 293 00:15:40,943 --> 00:15:46,279 at a 50 times cost reduction over lifetime compared to industry standards. 294 00:15:46,279 --> 00:15:51,159 Our brand is about generating absolutely responsible production 295 00:15:51,159 --> 00:15:53,523 the education model is entrepreneurship 296 00:15:53,523 --> 00:15:55,020 as a force of change 297 00:15:55,020 --> 00:15:58,338 to autonomous infrastructure allows for zero overhead operation 298 00:15:58,338 --> 00:16:01,709 and therefor combination of efficient enterprise best practice, 299 00:16:01,709 --> 00:16:03,528 entreprise training, autonomous operation 300 00:16:03,528 --> 00:16:12,177 we are talking about designing this for huge scalability. 301 00:16:13,271 --> 00:16:15,855 To build the open source economy 302 00:16:15,855 --> 00:16:18,573 in reality, we are building this to scale 303 00:16:18,573 --> 00:16:20,412 our goal is decentralized production 304 00:16:20,412 --> 00:16:23,437 decent production, for sure 305 00:16:23,437 --> 00:16:25,146 that's not a political ideology. 306 00:16:25,146 --> 00:16:27,113 I'm just talking about the business case 307 00:16:27,113 --> 00:16:29,556 for efficient entreprise 308 00:16:29,556 --> 00:16:32,288 where the traditional concept of scale 309 00:16:32,288 --> 00:16:33,794 becomes irrelevant 310 00:16:34,709 --> 00:16:36,779 our new concept of scale 311 00:16:36,779 --> 00:16:38,456 is about distributing economic power 312 00:16:38,456 --> 00:16:39,974 far and wide 313 00:16:39,974 --> 00:16:42,159 and our metric of success is 314 00:16:42,159 --> 00:16:43,976 the number of independent replications of the GVCS tools 315 00:16:43,976 --> 00:16:47,589 and the whole package. 316 00:16:48,755 --> 00:16:51,527 so, this actually shows how we've done since 317 00:16:51,527 --> 00:16:54,002 2008 to 2012. 318 00:16:54,079 --> 00:16:57,794 We've built a total of 62 prototypes since the community 319 00:16:57,794 --> 00:17:01,428 in 2011 we had the first ever replication, 320 00:17:01,428 --> 00:17:04,269 someone in Texas replicated the brick press 321 00:17:04,269 --> 00:17:06,825 completely from our open source plans 322 00:17:06,825 --> 00:17:07,910 independently 323 00:17:07,910 --> 00:17:10,389 and this year we have 13 more replications. 324 00:17:10,389 --> 00:17:11,955 We are on our way to grow 325 00:17:11,955 --> 00:17:15,261 There's also a social component to this 326 00:17:15,261 --> 00:17:18,495 and that means how do you optimize global collaboration 327 00:17:18,495 --> 00:17:22,139 for a bunch of wildcats to generate a design 328 00:17:22,139 --> 00:17:25,624 generally designs built in many locations worldwide 329 00:17:25,624 --> 00:17:27,190 we are just using very simple tools 330 00:17:27,190 --> 00:17:29,703 like wikis, google docs, sketchup, 331 00:17:29,703 --> 00:17:32,495 plus other open source tools which reduce the barriers of entry 332 00:17:32,495 --> 00:17:36,096 so that anybody can literally participate 333 00:17:36,096 --> 00:17:38,807 We start the process with OSE specifications 334 00:17:38,807 --> 00:17:43,610 meaning the simplicity, lifetime design, modularity, design for fabrication. 335 00:17:43,610 --> 00:17:46,608 We focus on the modularity for the quickness of the bills 336 00:17:46,608 --> 00:17:48,074 and simplicity of design 337 00:17:48,074 --> 00:17:49,697 it's like Lego blocks 338 00:17:49,697 --> 00:17:51,442 which, where you build upon modules 339 00:17:51,442 --> 00:17:53,052 that clearly applies to structures 340 00:17:53,052 --> 00:17:54,663 but also could apply to things like electronics, 341 00:17:54,663 --> 00:17:57,427 where little bits is an example of electronics kit 342 00:17:57,427 --> 00:17:59,543 that people can plug and play with 343 00:17:59,543 --> 00:18:01,257 and we are scaling that up 344 00:18:01,257 --> 00:18:02,570 to power electronics 345 00:18:02,570 --> 00:18:04,625 like induction furnaces 346 00:18:04,625 --> 00:18:05,596 inverters 347 00:18:05,596 --> 00:18:06,622 welders 348 00:18:06,622 --> 00:18:09,190 and others 349 00:18:09,190 --> 00:18:11,144 we are using collaborative production 350 00:18:11,144 --> 00:18:12,880 where our goal as i mentioned is to build 351 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:14,659 a brick press in 1 day, with 8 people 352 00:18:14,659 --> 00:18:17,938 when we got down to 4 days the last time 353 00:18:17,938 --> 00:18:21,293 so where are we with all this today? 354 00:18:21,293 --> 00:18:23,069 We are currently scaling our organization 355 00:18:23,069 --> 00:18:24,544 grouping, reorganizing 356 00:18:24,544 --> 00:18:27,396 really transitioning from vision to institution. 357 00:18:27,396 --> 00:18:30,897 Just two years ago we run at 1500 per month budget 358 00:18:30,897 --> 00:18:33,575 and now we've got 500.000 to work with 359 00:18:33,575 --> 00:18:35,113 we are building a team 360 00:18:35,113 --> 00:18:36,942 creating strategy, structure 361 00:18:36,942 --> 00:18:38,674 and process 362 00:18:38,674 --> 00:18:40,210 and we are also feeling the growing pains 363 00:18:40,210 --> 00:18:42,906 it's not easy recruiting people 364 00:18:42,906 --> 00:18:45,843 such as remote designers, onsite fulltime people, 365 00:18:45,843 --> 00:18:47,788 and volunteers for a dedicated project visit 366 00:18:47,788 --> 00:18:49,980 so i welcome any of you to apply. 367 00:18:49,980 --> 00:18:55,056 Our work is about regenerating the world around us 368 00:18:55,298 --> 00:18:58,492 It's about cleaning our economies 369 00:18:58,492 --> 00:19:01,305 so that we are not simply forced to steal from others 370 00:19:01,921 --> 00:19:04,040 by producing within our own communities 371 00:19:05,597 --> 00:19:07,063 I invite you to join us specially if you are 372 00:19:07,063 --> 00:19:09,279 a skilled engineer, retired executive 373 00:19:09,279 --> 00:19:13,363 looking to make a difference in the world 374 00:19:13,847 --> 00:19:16,875 See my TED talk if you haven't done yet 375 00:19:16,875 --> 00:19:20,057 It's actually quite popular, with over 1.000.000 hits by now 376 00:19:20,057 --> 00:19:23,377 you can download a copy of our civilization starter kit 377 00:19:23,377 --> 00:19:26,593 which contains now version 0.01 378 00:19:26,896 --> 00:19:29,498 with the plans for the tractor, brick press, pulverizer 379 00:19:29,498 --> 00:19:30,593 and power unit 380 00:19:31,224 --> 00:19:32,796 you can build it yourself. 381 00:19:33,064 --> 00:19:36,943 all the documentation videos and cad, and everything is in there 382 00:19:36,943 --> 00:19:40,079 And also you can sign in as a true fan 383 00:19:40,079 --> 00:19:42,295 support us at 10 dollars a month. 384 00:19:42,295 --> 00:19:44,857 We have about 350 people like that 385 00:19:44,857 --> 00:19:50,099 people doning from 10 to 100 bucks a month. 386 00:19:50,099 --> 00:19:55,431 It's the 1.000 true fans concept, originated by Kevin Kelly 387 00:19:55,431 --> 00:19:59,142 So, also talk to me. I need mentors 388 00:19:59,142 --> 00:20:00,459 our team needs strategic review 389 00:20:00,459 --> 00:20:01,563 process development 390 00:20:01,563 --> 00:20:03,089 technical review 391 00:20:03,089 --> 00:20:04,181 operations and everything 392 00:20:04,181 --> 00:20:08,746 So, nobody said that building the world's first Open Source Civilization 393 00:20:08,746 --> 00:20:11,295 would be easy, but, with the right social process, 394 00:20:11,295 --> 00:20:13,596 it can be fun 395 00:20:13,596 --> 00:20:17,573 We are testing the limits of what we all 396 00:20:17,573 --> 00:20:19,463 can do. 397 00:20:19,463 --> 00:20:21,358 to make a better world. 398 00:20:21,358 --> 00:20:23,142 Thank you 399 00:20:23,142 --> 00:20:34,426 subtitled by OSE Argentina.