Wealth Without Money
Matt Sparkes | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 2 pgs | 1 mb
QUIETLY AND DILIGENTLY, IN LOCATIONS
all over the world, an organization is working to bring the means of
production to the masses. Their motto. "Wealth without money."
implies a political motivation, though they're not socialists, Marxists,
or communists --- they're hardware hackers.
Adrian Bowyer, at Bath University in the U.K., leads the RepRap
project (reprap.org) to develop a design for a very special
rapid-prototyping machine. The device treads a fine line between
being capable enough to produce complex goods, and simple
enough in design that it can produce its own parts. The result is
a self-replicating machine, with the potential to spread across
the planet at an exponential rate.
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