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Open-sourced blueprints for civilization

Marcin Jakubowski · TED

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Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000).

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Institution
TED
Department
TED2011
Speaker
Marcin Jakubowski
Year
2011
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Computer science, Engineering
Source
TED
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