Nathan Cravens

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

Most recent publications: 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

Books

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

Reading Lists

• 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.

Politics

• Democracy for the Few. 9th Edition. Michael Parenti
• Hoodwinked. John Perkins
• The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to The US Empire. Julian Assange

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

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

Executive Studies

• Zero-to-One. Peter Thiel
• Exponential Organizations. Salim Ismail et al.
• 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

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
• Immanuel Wallerstein. World Systems Analysis: An Introduction
• Robert Theobald. The Guaranteed Income
• Robert Freedman. Marx on Economics

Inequality

• Spirit Level
• Wealth and Poverty of Nations. David S. Landes

History

• Empire: Rise and Demise of the British World Order and Lessons for Global Power. Niall Ferguson
• A History of Modern Europe. Albert S. Lindemann
• The Robber Barons. Mathew Josephson
• How We Got to Now. Steven Johnson
• The Quest for AI. Nils J. Nilsson
• 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).
• 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
• The Master Algorithm. Pedro Domingos
• Marvin Minsky. Emotion Machine
  • CSAIL. Marvin Minsky. Emotion Machine
• Steven Johnson. Where Good Ideas Come From
• Atul Gawande. The Checklist Manifesto

Inspiration

• Alan Watts. In My Own Way

Life Systems

Help people help themselves.

Food

• Grove: Indoor Auquaponic Gardening System
• MIT City Farm

Housing

• Eco-BLAC: Bricks made from landfill without emissions

Energy

• Pedal Power Generation
• HomeBiogas

Communications

• 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

• The $5 Computer: Raspberry Pi Zero.
• Intel & Micron: 3D XPoint: 1,000 faster than modern storage

Robotics

• 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

• 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

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

Video

• Resource Distribution at Tent City University Library
• Day 15, Interview at "Starbooks"

Text

• Occupy London's library provides shelf help

Child Education

• Child Home Education

User Contributions

• User Contributions