I was reading this article by US Congressman Mark Takano. It’s a good piece about the rise of “maker” spaces and the way people are rediscovering repair and invention. So it’s about […]
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Getting mud in your 3D printer
Developments like this are why the “maker revolution”, 3D-printing etc, is potentially such a game changer. This is a 3D-printer that makes low-cost housing from mud:
The scarcity issue
Here’s something I’ve been thinking about and it more or less drives the logic of the investigations here: You can ignore inequality as long as there is the prospect of infinite growth. Once […]
The ubiquitous weaponization of the technology that takes your job
I am working my way through the Pew Research Internet Project on Robotics, AI and the Future of Jobs. Right up my alley. I’ll offer a full response sometime soon, but I […]
Thinking about tomorrow
The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies is an organisation after my own heart. I stumbled on them when noodling around about 3D printing and the like and although I don’t know a […]
Guy Rundle talks about 3D printing and robotics
This is a recent interview Guy Rundle did with Richard Fidler about his (Rundle’s) new book, Material Revolution. It’s pretty good and definitely worth a listen. I have a review coming of […]
Are you serious? They can print houses?
Actually, this little gizmo spat out ten of them onto a block of land in China in under twnety-four hours. Watch this video to see how it is done. According to Mashable: […]
