In this talk, I discuss that social implications of the Maker Movement. I cover the future of Education & Manufacturing and its ability to influence society. Talk Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SId0_9CDj_s

1. Society
Nick Pinkston @nickpinkston

2. The Return of Meaning
New Education
Accessible Production

3. Society

4. Shockwaves of Modernity

5. A Crisis of Meaning

6. The Failure of Education

7. Pessimism

8. The New Optimism

9. Maker!
History

10. What’s a Maker?

11. Roots
Hippies!
Rise of Computers!
Free/Open Source Software!
Radical Left!
Hackerspaces!
Burning Man!
Tech Startups

12. Powers Combined
Artisanal Movement!
MIT Media Lab!
Web 2.0
After 9/11 & Great Recession:

13. Hackerspaces
Active: 1215 Planned: 357

15. Media

17. Industry

20. Tensions
Things vs. People
Artisanal vs. Scalable
Open vs. Closed

21. People!
+!
Things

22. Education

24. Hacker-Scouts.org

28. Forces of !
Production
Warning: We’re going deep

29. Why care about
Production?
Standard of Living!
!
Steering Society

31. Hardware Complexity

32. Won’t 3D printers save us all?

33. The Manufacturing Ecology

34. Digitize all the processes!
Subtractive Cast / Form
Post-Process AssemblyInspection
Additive

35. Design Tools for All

36. Reality Ripping: CT Scan

37. Dematerialization

38. Manufacturing: !
The Next Agriculture

39. Democratizing the !!
Means of Production

40. Market Cap
Per Employee

41. The Democratization Paradox:
The greater the power of
tools, the fewer people
capture the value.

42. Nothing is ever democratized

43. Stacktivism:
The Politics of Infrastructure

45. Conclusions

46. Conclusions
The Return of Meaning
New Education
Accessible Production

47. Our Charge
Humans over Hardware
Pragmatism over Dogma
Make: Society