# Open-sourced blueprints for civilization

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2011
- Speaker: Marcin Jakubowski
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science, Engineering
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski_open_sourced_blueprints_for_civilization)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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).

## Lectures

1. [Open-sourced blueprints for civilization](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/marcin_jakubowski_open_sourced_blueprints_for_civilization/61ac79a7e7c9), 4 min (TED's player)