the-technocopia-project

Introduction If we could design the perfect production line, what would it look like? What if you thought about industry from a top level ‘systems perspective’? To generalize, lets say we want a production line that takes nothing to run and produces anything you want. We would want it to make all of its own spare parts and consume no outside resources. We would want it not to produce any waste out of the machine for us to deal with. We would like it to be kept up to date with the latest processes automatically and with no cost to get this update. It should let anyone come up with their own things for it to make, and produce them with no change to the production line. Sounds like something you might like to have, or have access to? Thinking about problems in this way is the mindset of followers of a new group from the maker movement, called Technocopianism. They (myself among them) believe that this way of producing things, built through open-source projects, is t