Blog

Economy in a Box Presentation Report

Two weeks ago we presented on the Economy in a Box at Noisebridge in San Francisco, California – organized by the Bay Area Community Exchange. This is the most up to date report on the thinking and progress of Factor e Farm and Open Source Ecology, and is a 30 minutes (plus Q&A) worth watching.  We cover one tactical approach – for the creation of local economies and politics – backed by the substance of local resource use. We cover The Liberator Full Product Release as a case in point for demonstrating open business models. We start with an overview based on the Humanity+ presentation, and end with the Economy in a Box concept.

Marcin Jakubowsi at Noisebridge from East Bay Pictures on Vimeo.

The Q&A from the event is forthcoming, and you can also see the report on the event from BACE.

Some links for the presentation are:

Reports on the LifeTrac II prototype, Will’s second month Dedicated Project Visit report, open source honey extractor, open source heavy duty drill press, 3 minute documentary on Factor e Farm, open source chicken incubator, Factor e Farm summer agriculture walkthrough – are all backlogged and are forthcoming.

While we are on the topic of presentations, check out this talk by Juliet Schor, bestselling author, discussing her latest book – Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth. Look at minute 37:18, where she discusses Factor e Farm for about a minute out of her 40 minute presentation.

Juliet Schor: Plenitude from toddboyle on Vimeo.

17 Comments

  1. […] Jakubowski, Ph.D. of Open Source Ecology who are hard at work engineering post-scarcity “Economy In A Box” […]

  2. Bob Dring

    I enjoyed the presentation but was disappointed that you couldn’t get the audience to be quiet. The extraneous noise was very distracting. Why do people go to a presentation to learn something new and then talk all the way through it?

    Bobd Sydney, Australia

    1. Marcin

      The noise came from other areas of the Noisebridge hackerspace, and our room didn’t have walls going to the ceiling to shut the noise off.

  3. […] We have completed the initial prototype of the heavy duty, open source drill press. We are glad to report encouraging results, and a good addition to RepLab – the open source Fab Lab. It contains a hydraulic motor for the drilling and a hydraulic cylinder for the down pressure – so this is a literal press, and it is not short on torque or power as the motor can sustain up to 20 hp. We are using our Universal Rotor for the motor. This same rotor was already used for the lathe, tree auger (report forthcoming), and honey extractor (report forthcoming) – as it’s part of our LifeTrac infrastructure. This is part of our modularity concept in action – a key feature of the Global Village Construction Set. […]

  4. […] Marcin Jakubowski’s presentation at last month’s project roundtable is now available.  Marcin describes it here, and you can watch it here. Thanks to Marcin for coming out and presenting and to Andrew Hasse of […]

  5. […] future events. This looks like a promising event – just like our last presentation on the Economy in a Box, which resulted directly in 6 people being added to our base of, now, 80 True Fans. Subscribe. […]

  6. […] posted the full video in a former post. We note for our readers that – while Juliet Schor states that we are a resilient community […]

  7. […] goal. The number of goods and services that humans need is well-bounded, and likewise, the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is well-bounded – with only 40 key technologies. These technologies are sufficient to […]

  8. […] documentary material, and his LifeTrac II update is choice. Also, if you haven’t seen our Economy in a Box presentation, check it out for some of the most recent thoughts. People are beginning to talk about […]

  9. Open Source Ecology update

    […] roundtable, writes to inform us of his progress: We’ve been making good progress on the Economy in a Box – the infrastructure tools for post-scarcity, resilient communities. This is aligned with the […]

  10. […] are hot on the pursuit of a powerful 3-minute Explainer Video about the GVCS, which may be used not only to clarify the concept in general, but which may also assist in: (1), […]

  11. […] product development pipeline method. Our response to this is this burndown graph for deploying the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). See a larger picture on the […]

  12. […] post? We are planning OSE Proposal 2011, with a goal to deploy the remaining 39 technologies of the Global Village Construction Set in a radically rapid, parallel development fashion involving $2M in funding and 1 year in […]

  13. […] with Proposal 2011 for the rapid deployment of the remaining 39 GVCS technologies in a rapid, parallel fashion by year-end 2011 – here is an overview of the […]

  14. Jean Maier

    Don’t you need iron ore and a steel mill to get the components of your machines?

  15. […] will be discussing the next step after the Economy in a Box presentation. The Economy in a Box talk overviewed the case for post-scarcity, open source, […]