I first encountered 3-D printing in Cory Doctorow's Makers, a science fiction novel set in the wake of economic armageddon. In Doctorow's imagined near-future world, hulking…
Over at Make: Online last week, Phillip Torrone posted "If You're Going to Kill It, Open Source It!"--his wish list of dead products that he'd like to see given to an open…
At SCaLE 9x, Leigh Honeywell gave a keynote on the history and future hackerspaces. ( Watch the video.) She provided a history of the hackerspace movement both inside and…
Tim Lee is, for my money, one of the most reasonable and thoughtful tech policy essayists we have. His latest, “ Open User Interfaces Suck” got my attention, because he hits…
