Open Source Ecology

[Lothar]

Found this interesting.  Thought some of you might, too.

http://www.freetalklive.com/content/open_source_ecology

"Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters that for the last two years has been creating the Global Village Construction Set, an open source, low-cost, high performance technological platform that allows for the easy, DIY fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a sustainable civilization with modern comforts. The GVCS lowers the barriers to entry into farming, building, and manufacturing and can be seen as a life-size lego-like set of modular tools that can create entire economies, whether in rural Missouri, where the project was founded, in urban redevelopment, or in the developing world."

[Cognitive Dissident]

For some reason, I see the Zeitgeistkind getting pretty excited about that.

[Nik from Illinois]

Anyone can get excited about something like this!

Except those for whom the dependence of others is an absolute necessity to their continued existence in power.