Making the Future: What DIY Culture is Telling Us About Tomorrow

YouTube has a 49-minute presentation by David Pescovitz editor-at-large of MAKE magazine on what the growing DIY culture and changing manufacturing technologies could lead to in the future.

Presentation Abstract:

Two future forces, one mostly social, one mostly technological, are intersecting to transform how goods, services, and experiences - the stuff of our world - will be designed, manufactured, and distributed over the next decade. An emerging do-it-yourself culture of makers is boldly voiding warranties to tweak, hack, and customize the products they buy. And what they can't purchase, they build from scratch.

Meanwhile, flexible manufacturing technologies on the horizon will change fabrication from massive and centralized to lightweight and ad hoc. These trends sit atop a platform of grassroots economics - new market structures developing online that embody a shift from stores and sales to communities and connections.

Watch Making the Future: What DIY Culture is Telling Us About Tomorrow

BBC - DIY Gadgetry
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/june2009/
diy_gadgetry.htm

Make Magazine explains electronics components
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/november2009/
make_explains_electronic_components.htm

MAKE Magazine
http://makezine.com/