Re: The Maker Movement is abandoned by its corporate sponsors; throws in the towel

2019-06-18 Thread Richard Sewell
Sam - it's a self-description that works well for people who find themselves doing several of those things, and don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just one. Garnet makes the same mistake, I think: " Language typically expands into a rich lexicon of terms when a field grows, and the genera

Re: The Maker Movement is abandoned by its corporate sponsors; throws in the towel

2019-06-12 Thread Richard Sewell
hing else. Cheers, Adrian. On 12/06/2019 17:35, Richard Sewell wrote: James - I think from my point of view the greatest value of the maker movement has been an explosion of people making things that don't entirely make sense and that are not intended as commercial ventures. That's not

Re: The Maker Movement is abandoned by its corporate sponsors; throws in the towel

2019-06-12 Thread Richard Sewell
James - I think from my point of view the greatest value of the maker movement has been an explosion of people making things that don't entirely make sense and that are not intended as commercial ventures. That's not an issue, that's the point. They are learning that they can pull ideas out of