I am pretty sure that I am not the only one thinking that we (colloquially known as "we, the people") need to make ourselves independent from current power structures ie. governments and corporations.
Even if you are not an anarchist or similiar you will have to acknowledge that a centralized government poses a single point of failure. If the government collapses it's fuck-all for the people living in that state. At the most basic level what people need is food and shelter. In our day and age the obvious way for giving *everyone* access to something would be automation. So, in essence, my question is this: What efforts for automating the supply of food, shelter and other things needed to be independent of our current, centralized, power structures do you know of? I know of the urban farming community but think they are a bit too low-tech. Automated vertical farming[1] seems interesting, but I don't know of any project trying to do this open-source or even just proprietarily… What seems very interesting in terms of shelter is a technology called contour crafting[2] which was inspired by 3D-printing and could revolutionize how we think about architecture. Last but not least I know of the Global Village Construction Set[3] which is a promising project, but seems to depend on classical, inefficient, agriculture. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_farming [2] http://www.contourcrafting.org/ Greetings, phryk -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
