Daily Thoughts 12/26/2011

Daily Thoughts 12/26/2011

I checked the Facebook account for the library.  I listed a few events.  I also updated the Twitter account.  I am still thinking about the budget meeting on December 29, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.  I am going to try and go.

I finished reading The End of Growth by Richard Heinberg. I placed the book World on the edge : how to prevent environmental and economic collapse by Lester R. Brown on hold.  I enjoyed reading The End to Growth.  I agree to the premise that the world will become much more local, but I think it will become much more local in a different way.

I think additive manufacturing or 3D Printing Technology which will change the world  soon.  There is a desktop manufacturing boom coming soon.  Already, the basic machines are starting to be produced.  I especially find things like Makerbot Industries fascinating.  http://www.makerbot.com/   This is the tip of the iceberg.  Desktop manufacturing will become systematically cheaper much like computers did.  DIY Desktop CNC Machine http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/421256045/diy-desktop-cnc-machine?ref=live

There is tremendous promise in this kind of technology.  It could lead to things like the Urbee becoming real http://www.urbee.net/vision/  This is the first model for a 3D printed car.  This type of technology by nature is local.

This kind of thinking is tied in with the Maker movement.  http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/11/dale-dougherty-make-white-house.html  I think it has a wonderful almost science fiction feel to it.  Cory Doctorow even wrote a science fiction book called Makers which is available to read as a Creative Commons book.
http://craphound.com/makers/Cory_Doctorow_-_Makers.html