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halfbakesphere
network of halfbakeries that evolves into a bio-complexification-zone phase of development of the Earth | |
This would be a hackerspace movement where physical
manifestations of the halfbakery are located in public
library space around the world and provide space and
resources for people to get together, share, document,
implement, market, and develop their halfbaked ideas.
Accessibility could be
baked in at the ground level to
make
sure that the spaces and resources are accessible to
people
who use adaptive technologies, so that the especially
crazy
and innovative ideas that come out of this community
can
be baked back into the development process. Products,
weird art projects etc could be used to market and
measure the library's "functionality". This network of
hackspaces could eventually virtualize when fabrication
becomes ubiquitous and at the speed of thought, and
become an "halfbakesphere", just beyond the noosphere.
Maker Faire
http://makerfaire.com/
[JesusHChrist, Sep 18 2011]
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would there be pointed sticks? |
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Toronto's supposed business genius mayor has the amazing business idea of shutting down a bunch of libraries to save money. I was under the impression business was about making money through innovation, not just pushing the orange protestantism. This is the type of innovation that is needed. |
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So, it's a Starbucks with a Wi-fi connection, then? |
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Public workshops for all - bring your own materials, book in a 30 minute session, made your cuts, or flash your PCBs, or feed in your blueprints into the 3d prototyper, if libraries lend out learning tools, then an extended library should lend out time on more practical tools as well. |
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Trouble is, it's expensive - in a time when public funding is being cut, and libraries are being shut down, asking for an additional (and more costly) service to be added to the library remit seems to suffer from being badly timed. |
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The screen area on an e-reader is smaller than a paperback book; how are you going to read the instructions on how to operate the CNC machines ? |
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I was under the impression that it was during economic downturn public spending was supposed to increase. People realized that after the first notable time the market system utterly failed at the end of the 1920s. It keeps utterly failing but some dearth of reasoning keeps people deregulating banking systems, forcing poor people to pay for private health insurance, bailing-out billionaires, and cutting social services when the economy is in decline. This post is an example of something public libraries can do right now to transform society. It will help reverse the alarming deskilling trend that postindustrialism has ushered in. |
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Technology is making the traditional model of libraries obsolete. Libraries should re-cast themselves as not just a place to borrow books from, but a public venue for spreading knowledge. If libraries could adapt to the changing needs of citizens, they may be able to escape a likely decline in public funding. |
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I'm not sure if this idea is the best way to answer this challenge, but it looks like a step in the right direction. [+] |
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//I was under the impression that it was during
economic downturn public spending was supposed
to increase.// Aha - a Keynsian! Not many of them
left these days - You may well be right (I couldn't
possibly comment) |
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The only problem with this is that they'd be filled with
Halfbakers. Fire suppression would have to be state-of-
the-art, especially if [8th] and yours truly were in close
proximity. |
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If the two of you would kindly step into these
meatgrinders, we can test whether
the resulting slurries work as a hypergolic
rocket fuel. |
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