Introduction

This new section will be dedicated to Open Manufacturing developments, making it easier to identify developments that are more directly about "making things." It's best seen as a smaller subset of our much broader section on Open and Shared Design Communities.

(status: the 5 first columns from the Design category have been ported)

Maintainer

Nathan Cravens is a philosopher, futurist, and founder of the Effortless Economy Institute. He observes Abundance movements and post-capitalist activity to anticipate and strategically prepare for an effortless economy or a productive environment without labor.

Link: http://effortlesseconomy.com

Kontakt: knuggy AT gmail DOT com

Key Resources

Discussion

Open Manufacturing: The Social Implementation of Open Manufacturing & Distribution Techniques

Reference

The best presentation for beginners on the current and future state of Open and Distributed Manufacturing, is the Advanced Civilisation site of Charles Collis at http://www.adciv.org/Main_Page

See in particular the overview on how to turn virtual designs into physical objects at http://www.adciv.org/Virtual_designs_into_physical_objects