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Open Source Ecology

Open Source Ecology

The Post-Apocalypse Survival Machine Nerd Farm Marcin Jakubowski sits cross-legged on the dirt floor of a round hut in Missouri farm country, carefully making an open-faced mayo and cheddar sandwich. Inside the hut there’s a bed, a small desk, a few plastic containers (including one for food), and, occasionally, mice and snakes. It’s 104F out and only slightly cooler inside. There’s no fridge, so just how the mayonnaise hasn’t spoiled is something of a mystery. Jakubowski, who’s of average height and extremely fit, wears khakis and a long-sleeve oxford shirt. Jakubowski’s hut anchors a 30-acre compound near Maysville, Mo., full of wooden shacks, yurts, work sheds, flapping laundry, clucking chickens, and a collection of black and strange-looking machinery. In 2007, Jakubowski began working on a minimum set of machines necessary to sustain a modern civilization. Photograph by Michael FribergA second-generation Life Trac tractor, built on the premises Jakubowski, 40, came to the U.S. from Poland at age 10 with his family.

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Minority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) at Rensselaer, used computational and analytical methods to discover the tipping point where a minority belief becomes the majority opinion. The finding has implications for the study and influence of societal interactions ranging from the spread of innovations to the movement of political ideals. "When the number of committed opinion holders is below 10 percent, there is no visible progress in the spread of ideas. It would literally take the amount of time comparable to the age of the universe for this size group to reach the majority," said SCNARC Director Boleslaw Szymanski, the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at Rensselaer.

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Issuu - You Publish Open Source Ecology Open Source Ecology: Practical post scarcity The 50 machines that compose the Global Village Construction Set Open Source Ecology (OSE) is a network of farmers, engineers, architects and supporters, whose main goal is the eventual manufacturing of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). History[edit] Marcin Jakubowski Ph.D. founded the group in 2003.[7] In the final year of his doctoral thesis at the University of Wisconsin, he had the feeling that his career field was too closed off from the world's problems, and he wanted to go a different way. Open Source Ecology is also developing in Europe as OSE Europe.[9] Factor e Farm[edit] The Factor e Farm is the main headquarters, where the machines are prototyped and tested. Current progress[edit] Powercube v7 Assembly videoLiberator Compressed Earth Brick Press v4 Assembly videoLifeTrac tractor - Design RationaleLifeTrac tractor - Fabrication ReportLifeTrac tractor- Fabrication Drawings Awards and recognition[edit] List of machines[edit]

How to Start a Revolution: 10 steps Edit Article Edited by Steven Bluen, Tipper, Eric, Jonathan E. and 61 others There are times when it's necessary to fight against things that have become so wrong that they should no longer be. Ad Steps 1Know your Goal. 10Realize that a drastic political or social revolution is almost always about freedom. Tips To be successful, you need to be totally committed; compromise is failure.There is strength in numbers. Warnings Have some idea about how you want society to look like after the revolution.

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