Nathan Cravens

Nathan Wilson Cravens
@nwcrav | Contact | Nathan's Music at Mixcloud & Soundcloud | Founder Open Manufacturing Discussion

Most recent publications: The Humanoid Machinist. . or, What is Art? | From Big to Small: Open Fabrication, Modular Production, & Programmable Matter
An Ode to Platform Cooperativism: The Quest for Greater Freedom | Introducing a Rescue Package for Refugees

New to P2P thinking? See: Top 10 P2P Trends of 2015 by Michel Bauwens

Reading Lists

• List of Words I Like
• Non-Fiction Book Lists by Intelligence Expert and Radical Open Source Advocate, Robert Steele
• Required Reading by Top US Universities. Source: Open Syllabus Project
• David Bowie's top 100
• CFR Foreign Affairs 2015
• Warren Buffett's Favorite Books
• For Designers
• For Science

Timelines

• List of Timelines. Wikipedia
• From Prehistory to Plato
• Anti-Capitalist Dictionary: People
• How The Web Was Born
• London. A Biography.

Recommended Books

Below, a Curated Selection by Your Occupy Librarian. (Last stationed 2011-12 in London)
Publishers showing support of the movement via book donations included Zed, Verso, Pluto, AK, and Freedom Press.
The highest praise and support should go to The Radical Grandmother Brigade. They are the Life Blood & Heart of Revolution.

Ordered accordingly.

Reference Shelf

• The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization. Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier, Patrick Reedy
• Dictionary of Latin Phrases. Jon R. Stone
• Engineers Databook. 4th Edition. Clifford Matthews
• Architect’s Pocket Book. 4th Edition. Charlotte Baden-Powell
• Programming Robots with ROS. 1st Edition. Morgan Quigley. Brian Gerkey. William D. Smart

Futures Studies

• Superforecasting. Philip E. Tetlock. Dan Gardner
• Singularity is Near. Raymond Kurzweil
• Foundations of Futures Studies. Volumes 1&2. Wendell Bell

U.S. Politics

• Democracy for the Few. 9th Edition. Michael Parenti
• 935 Lies. Charles Lewis
• Griftopia. Matt Taibbi
• Hoodwinked. John Perkins
• Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire. Niall Ferguson
• The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to The US Empire. Julian Assange
• Clinton Cash. Peter Schweizer

Finance

• All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power. Nomi Prins
• How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour. Les Leopold
• All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis. Bethany McLean. Joe Nocera.

Automation

• The Glass Cage. Nicholas Carr
• The Second Machine Age. Erik Brynjolfsson. Andrew McAfee
• The Internet Is Not the Answer. Andrew Keen
• Rise of the Machines. Martin Ford

Pre-Automation / Ephemeral Labor / Gig Economy

• Remote: Office Not Required. David Heinemeier Hansson. Jason Fried

Executive Studies

• Zero-to-One. Peter Thiel
• Exponential Organizations. Salim Ismail et al.
• Made in America. Sam Walton
• BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World. Peter Diamandis & Steven Kotler
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things. Ben Horowitz
• The Lean Startup. Eric Ries
• Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't. Jeffrey Pfeffer
• Speakrets. Ruth Sherman
• Kanban

Right Society

• The Soul of Man under Socialism. Oscar Wilde
• PostCapitalism. Paul Mason
• Critical Path. Richard Buckminster Fuller
• Kevin Smith. Free is Cheaper
• Kropotkin. Colin Ward. Workshops Tomorrow
• Envisioning Real Utopia

Economics

• Lewis Hyde. The Gift
• The Enigma of Capital. David Harvey
• Carlota Perez. Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital
• Raj Patel. The Value of Nothing
• Robert Theobald. The Guaranteed Income
• Robert Freedman. Marx on Economics

Inequality

• Spirit Level
• The Divide. Matt Taibbi
• Wealth and Poverty of Nations. David S. Landes

History

• The Story of Civilization. Eleven Volumes. Will & Ariel Durant
• Empire: Rise and Demise of the British World Order and Lessons for Global Power. Niall Ferguson
• A History of Modern Europe. Albert S. Lindemann
• Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism. Peter Marshall
• Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune. Kristin Ross
• The Robber Barons. Mathew Josephson
• Paul Clark & Julian Freeman. Design
• Paul Lafargue. Evolution of Property
• David Petegorsky. Left-wing Democracy in the English Civil War: Gerrard Winstanley and the Digger Movement
• Martin Cohen. Political Philosophy: From Plato to Mao
• Anthony Hall. Earth into Property
• Noam Chomsky. Occupy

Peer Production

• Network Society & Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy. Michel Bauwens. Vasilis Kostakis.
• Wealth of the Commons. David Bollier (Ed). Silke Helfrich (Ed).
• Governing the Commons. Elinor Olstrom
• Clay Shirky. Here Comes Everybody
• Chris Anderson. The Long Tail
• Matt Mason. The Pirates Dilemma
• Richard Sennet. Together: Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics

Innovation

• FAB. Neil Gershenfeld
• Regenesis. George Church
• Telomerase Revolution. Michael Fossel
• Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization. Vaclav Smil
• The Master Algorithm. Pedro Domingos
• How We Got to Now. Steven Johnson
• The Quest for AI. Nils J. Nilsson
• Marvin Minsky. Emotion Machine
  • CSAIL. Marvin Minsky. Emotion Machine
• Steven Johnson. Where Good Ideas Come From
• Atul Gawande. The Checklist Manifesto

Inspiration

• Jazz Guide: 1001 Best Albums. Brian Morton. Richard Cook.
• Alan Watts. In My Own Way

World Order

• World Order. Kissinger
• World as It Is. Chris Hedges
• World Systems Analysis: An Introduction. Immanuel Wallerstein
• Trouble in Paradise. Slavoj Žižek

Life Systems

Help people help themselves.

Management

• Wevolver. Open Hardware Incubator
• POC21: Over 100 "makers" develop 12 off-grid technologies
• Envienta Open Source Ecology
• Qetema Smart City

Food

• Grove: Indoor Auquaponic Gardening System
• MIT City Farm

Housing

• Tiny House Movement
• Wikihouse
• Eco-BLAC: Bricks made from landfill without emissions

Energy

• Pedal Power Generation
• HomeBiogas
• OSE Solar
• Zenman energy
• Solarflower

Communications

• Owncloud on the Raspberry Pi Zero, Super small Personal Cloud Storage Server
• Koruza: Free Space Optical hardware for 1Gbps mesh networking up to 100 meters
• Google Loon: Providing Internet to all of Sri Lanka
• IBM Watson Personality Insights service

Augmented Reality

• ScopeAR Beams An Expert To You Through Augmented Reality

Computer Hardware

• 128gb flash drive for $20
• Nyami Open Source GPU
• The $5 Computer: Raspberry Pi Zero.
• Jetson TX1. 256 CUDA cores delivering over 1 TeraFLOPs of performance.
• Intel & Micron: 3D XPoint: 1,000 faster than modern storage

Robotics

• Co-bot Round-up
• Actuated Telerobotics "Researchers from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering have designed an interface that takes advantage of a human's split-second reflexes allowing a humanoid to maintain its balance and complete tasks."

Automation

• Changying Precision Technology Company factory in Dongguan "...production per person has increased from 8,000 pieces to 21,000 pieces. That's a 162.5% increase. The increased production rate hasn't come at the cost of quality either. In fact, quality has improved. Before the robots, the product defect rate was 25%, now it is below 5%."

Fabrication

• Mayku Desktop Fab Beyond 3D Printing: From Headphones to Smartphones
• 3D printing metals without lasors
• Voxel8: 3D Printed Electronics
• WASP: LDM Extruder: 3D Print Ceramics

Sensors & Scanning

• Array of Things
• 3D Scanning Forum
• 123D Catch: Make 3D Models with Photos
• Bevel: $49 3D Scanner

Modeling

• 3D Brain Model

Software

• RISC-V

Transportation

• Autonomous Vehicles: Insurance Rates Would Plummet

Common Stores

• Freeshops
• Tool Librarys

Social Enterprise

• GreenPath Food: Helping smallholders sell internationally
• Protoprint: Recycled plastic into filament for 3D printing

Learn to Code

• Learn to (Ruby) Program by Chris Pine
• Learn Python the Hard Way by Zed Shaw

Nathan's Writings

Articles at Medium

• What Do We Need From Technology & Ourselves
• The Telerobotic Fulcrum

Benevolent Technocracy

• Public Resource Mechanics

Political Economy

• The Sixth Revolution?
• An Urban Singularity: The Combining of Global Cities as a Unitarian Architectural Project
• A Universal Commons Code of Ethics
• Hard Takeoff
• Free Markets and Free Use Commons
  • Financial commons
• Effortless Economy
• Mutually Assured Production

Technology

• Public Resource Network
• Automated Distribution Systems
• Global Localization and Manipulation Engine
• Open Manufacturing
• The Holistic Problem of Manufacturing
• Universal Grid Computing
• General Manufacturing Robotics

Business

• The Supremist Corporation Manifesto

Interviews

Text

• Occupy London's library provides shelf help

Child Education

• Child Home Education

User Contributions

• User Contributions