Civilization engineering, Design, Economic growth, Education, Fusion energy, Industrial metals, Manufacturing, Open access, Open collaboration, Regenerative technologies, Social justice, Technology, Wind turbines
2012, 2011
United States
Open Source Ecology is an organization focused on developing open source industrial machines, particularly the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). The GVCS consists of 50 different machines necessary for building a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. The organization aims to create an open source economy by sharing designs online for free, promoting innovation through open collaboration. They work on various projects such as the Seed Eco-Home, MicroHouse, electric motor/generator, Microcombine, and 50 kW Wind Turbine. The organization conducts development through Design Sprints, university collaborations, pilot projects, and workshops. Marcin Jakubowski, the founder, leads the team in creating a collaborative economic platform to accelerate innovation. The organization also offers apprenticeships for individuals interested in working // We are trying to change the economic system to open collaboration, replacing patents and trade secrets across the board with collaborative development. Our main question is how we transform the reptilian brain of humans from fear and scarcity to one of abundance. This is based on a first principles understanding that energy resources are abundant according to the Kardashev scale, and therefore material abundance is possible. Therefore, the goal is to educate civilization to the practice of abundance by teaching the mindsets and skills required to begin living in an information-based, post-scarcity economy. // Marcin Jakubowski is the founder of Open Source Ecology, an organization dedicated to developing open source industrial machines through projects like the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). The GVCS encompasses 50 essential machines for establishing a sustainable civilization. Marcin leads the team in fostering open collaboration and sharing designs online for free to promote innovation and create an open source economy. Through initiatives like the Seed Eco-Home, MicroHouse, electric motor/generator, Microcombine, and 50 kW Wind Turbine, Marcin and his team aim to accelerate innovation and transform the economic system towards collaborative development. Their work is rooted in the belief that material abundance is achievable through a shift in mindset from fear and scarcity to one of abundance, ultimately striving to educate society on living in a post-scarcity economy. // Farmer + technologist // A Polish-American who is starting a new civilization -- from scratch -- in the Midwestern US.
Marcin came to the U.S. from Poland as a child. He graduated with honors from Princeton and earned his PhD in fusion physics from the University of Wisconsin. Frustrated with the lack of relevance to pressing world issues in his education, he founded Open Source Ecology in 2003 in order to make closed-loop manufacturing a reality. He began development on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) (see his 2011 <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski.html">TED Talk</a>), an open source DIY tool set of 50 different industrial machines necessary to create a small civilization with modern comforts.
His work has recently been recognized in his acceptance as a 2012 TED Senior Fellow, a 2012 Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and his TED Talk was named the top 6th in the Huffington Post Best of TED 2011. His goal is to create the open source economy - an economy that optimizes both production and distribution - while providing environmental regeneration and social justice. To this end, Marcin is currently building a team of global collaborators and on-site builders for his land-based facility - to take this from concept to reality.
He believes that the norm in society should be pursuing autonomy, mastery, and higher purpose - as in <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html">Daniel Pink's</a> talk - and that achieving such a state can take us beyond artificial material scarcity. He believes that the open source economy is indeed a prerequisite to the type of autonomy that allows people to pursue mastery - consistent with higher purpose.
His main interest is helping the world evolving to freedom by eliminating artificial material scarcity from driving geopolitical relations. He thinks that this can be achieved by open-sourcing modern technology and adapting it for maximum human service: by lowering the barriers to enterprise. His approach to this is building an economic foundation for the open source economy - by deploying the 50 open source tools of the GVCS by year-end 2012. Thereafter, his plan is to engage in a social experiment to determine whether a modern standard of living can be achieved with the GVCS tools. He claims that the scale of a couple hundred acres in a community of Dunbar's number is sufficient to create advanced civilization - namely, a civilization in which people have time for one another. More particularly, he claims that 2 hours of work should be sufficient in such a community to provide modern material prosperity - all the way down to smelting of metals and semiconductors from local resources. At the point of material post-scarcity - he claims that society will not be magically healed - but it will have a fair chance of evolving a higher level of harmony and cultural advancement where pursuit of higher purpose begins to weave back the societal fabric.
Marcin's motivation was formed by observation that gross terror and suffering is persistent, and that making a better tomorrow is a choice that all responsible individuals must make, proactively and without fear. With stories of grandparents in concentration camps and in the Polish underground of WWII filling his childhood memories, Marcin gained the conviction and passion to make a better world - to live the life of evolution that he talks about. He is an ambitious entrepreneur whose passion is fueled by constant learning, meditation, and a desire to live from local, sustainable resources. He claims that living the technology-enabled option of local resource use should not be an eco-elite privilege, but a transformational force that is a prerequisite for improving personal and geopolitical relations.
His vehicle for transformation is development of the <a href="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology_Paradigm">Open Source Ecology paradigm</a> - an open source economy where open technology is a way to reconnect to one another and to our natural life support systems. // Marcin came to the U.S. from Poland as a child. He graduated with honors from Princeton and earned his PhD in fusion physics from the University of Wisconsin. Frustrated with the lack of relevance to pressing world issues in his education, he founded Open Source Ecology in 2003 in order to make closed-loop manufacturing a reality. He began development on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) (see http://vimeo.com/16106427), an open source DIY tool set of 50 different industrial machines necessary to create modern civilization. His main interest is evolving to freedom by eliminating resource scarcity as the main force behind geopolitical relations - with the wise use of modern technology adapted for human service.
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I am a boundary-crossing iconoclast who believes that material well-being should not be a privilege that only the few can enjoy. I believe that the necessity 'to make a living' should not be an underlying force in civilization that prevents people from pursuing their true passions. I am convinced that by injecting a little wisdom into our technology, we can tame technology for true human service. I believe that open society and open source economic development is a route to abundance and prosperity for all. I am convinced that until we learn to share, there will not be enough for everybody. Sharing means engaging in open source economic development. Open source economic development is an economic paradigm where everybody has access to best practices, optimized product designs, and access to local production. I believe that one day, open access to the means of economic production may become a favored option over monopoly money - and stimulate much higher levels of innovation that are currently possible. I am also convinced that economies based on artificial scarcity are coming to the end of their useful life. Abundance is not an airy ideal - but a state of mind and a rigorous condition where people have not only the access to knowledge and tools of production - but also to free time in which to cultivate their wisdom, honor, and happiness. I am dedicating my life to live by these principles, and to make this a practical option for anyone who chooses to do so.
In practical terms, I am looking for collaborators who are interested in developing a world-class center for open source product development - with the stated goals of eradicating poverty as we know it; increasing meaning in peoples' lives; and evolving to freedom beyond material scarcity - while living regeneratively with balance in our life support systems. I am looking for people who endorse open source culture - to the point of understanding that open, collaborative development - if carried out effectively - has the potential to produce results far beyond and fear-based development path. To date, nobody has figured out how to truly leverage open economic development for disruptive social change. There are many hints that this is happening, but to date, open economic development has been grossly under-utilized. Our Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal is to develop and propel the open source economic development methodology into the mainstream.
See my bio at https://www.opensourceecology.org/marcin-jakubowski/ // Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000). // Marcin Jakubowski is the founder of Open Source Ecology, an organization dedicated to developing open source industrial machines through projects like the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). The GVCS encompasses 50 essential machines for establishing a sustainable civilization. Marcin leads the team in fostering open collaboration and sharing designs online for free to promote innovation and create an open source economy. Through initiatives like the Seed Eco-Home, MicroHouse, electric motor/generator, Microcombine, and 50 kW Wind Turbine, Marcin and his team aim to accelerate innovation and transform the economic system towards collaborative development. Their work is rooted in the belief that material abundance is achievable through a shift in mindset from fear and scarcity to one of abundance, ultimately striving to educate society on living in a post-scarcity economy. // Farmer + technologist // technology, education, standards development, turbine, open access, electric, design, farming, post-scarcity, closed-loop, lifestyle engineering, wind, fusion, wind turbine, open source, regenerative, construction, social justice, children, economic growth, poverty, open collaboration, industrial, metals, justice, ecology, manufacturing, civilization engineering, semiconductor // Missouri|Maysville|United States|USA
Missouri|Maysville|United States|USA
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