Been a lurker on here for about 2 years. I am constantly thrilled by the
names I see popping up on this listserv. Seems like there are many members
on here who write or create things I admire. The conversations can be a bit
intimidating sometimes, but mostly I avoid chiming in because I tend to
Hi Chris, Bruce and others,
I'm interested in talking to people about an open source alternative to
Make - I think this is a real opportunity to improve things and make them
more interesting. In 2016 I wrote that the fad of the maker movement was
over - http://disobedientelectronics.com - my
Hi - I’m an occasional poster - on list for 21 years. Crustacean period of
deep internet networking. Nettime is go-to site for reading when other news
and info cease to bring about the right kind of karate chop to the
mega-brain of capital.
Maker...was cool at start. Grew as result of
Responding to this because of the last call for lurkers to participate more :)
I became of the maker movement through education and saw it mostly as an
education trend, which meant that it was a bunch of millennial and gen x people
trying to read what gen z wants and needs for the imaginary
Interesting times indeed. I am not shedding tears over the demise of PrintrBot
or Radio Shack (which reappeared as a “brand”), and certainly not of Toys “R”
Us (Dutch Intertoys met the same fate) — and neither does the demise of
TechShop or Maker Media really make me cry.
It is intriguing to
[my thoughts/questions about ‘what’s next’ from a long time lurker]
Are we not at war?
While pondering the simulation hypothesis / anticipating the
singularity, and comfortable that the warning of Skynet’s self-awareness
and Orwell’s Oceana did not come true, have we not yet failed to realize
