James: I think part of the problem w Make / Maker Faire is that it was at a
crossroads of hacker culture, electronic art and commerce (and several
other things) - but it conflated and misunderstood almost all of them.
Maker Media only took all of this stuff and put it under the banner of
leisure
Minka, I don't think you go far enough - we should be teaching critical
thinking and media literacy to most of the adults, as well as the next
generation. That's been part of what I've been trying to do locally, to
varying levels of success; and not just me - I think Liverpool's
artistic
Following an earlier thread --
There are some infrastructures that directly address the points raised below.
In particular, technology infrastructures that put control in the hands of
users will generally involve users running free-software code on free-software
platforms that they control and
