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Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.60,0:00:16.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now the world's productive power is controlled by a few giant corporations.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.40,0:00:20.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The products are expensive, their designs are secret, and to make things worse,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.75,0:00:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are now seeing these same companies engineer their products to fail over time,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.42,0:00:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply to increase profits.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.72,0:00:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw this problem and I thought we have all the tools available to make this machinery for ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.36,0:00:39.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with the internet we can distribute our designs for next to nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.94,0:00:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I bought some land, and started building it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.25,0:00:49.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From our location in Missouri, we are developing low cost modular tools,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.51,0:00:54.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that anyone can build and we are sharing our designs on the internet, free of charge.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.81,0:00:58.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People who need equipment are typically the ones who can least afford it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.27,0:01:00.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The applications are anything from 3rd world development
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.74,0:01:05.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a dying farming community, to standard economic enterprise.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.47,0:01:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The point is that we make equipment available to everyone who needs it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.32,0:01:16.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OpenSource Ecology is a project, it's... in practice we are working on the Global Village Construction Set.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.39,0:01:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is a set of the 50 industrial machines that it takes
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.76,0:01:22.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to build a small civilization with modern comforts.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.38,0:01:28.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's everything that you need to provide your energy, food, housing, and other technologies.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.63,0:01:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very little true collaboration really happens, when we have the patent system, and it's like:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.32,0:01:37.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm gonna pounce on you if gonna try to learn from me and do better than I did!"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.58,0:01:41.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The beautiful thing about the open-source development method is that, you produce the plans,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.91,0:01:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you give a lot to the community, and then stuff starts coming back.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.36,0:01:49.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then products will be better and better, everybody wins.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.47,0:01:53.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Other day I got an email, someone who has built the compressed earth-brick press.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.89,0:01:56.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wow! Hey that looks exactly like mine!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.72,0:01:59.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I forget exactly how I ran into open-source ecology
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.61,0:02:01.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I think I was destined to find it
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.66,0:02:04.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just from my interest in natural building and open-source.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.95,0:02:08.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just seemed to make sense to use this machine here for building our house.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.78,0:02:11.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So then I saw the designs looking at how I was going to build it,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.47,0:02:14.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I noticed that some of the code could use improving
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.49,0:02:17.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the board that does the controlling could also use some improving.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.77,0:02:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's actually quite a few people who
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.04,0:02:22.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would have never thought that they could build a house.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.33,0:02:26.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And by kind of like showing them: "Hey look, I've never built a house before"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.03,0:02:29.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I've never done hydraulics before, but it seems to be working."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.59,0:02:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of times we think this kind of work is impossible, to build your own living environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.32,0:02:36.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me it's been the most transformative experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.55,0:02:41.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've learned that I can do it and I want to show that to others.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.05,0:02:44.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if everybody were to join together to make the best products,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.58,0:02:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most robust products that are open-source
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.60,0:02:48.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that anyone has access to producing them.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.83,0:02:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And therefore you can run an economy in a collaborative way
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.72,0:02:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as opposed to a competitive, wasteful way.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.88,0:02:56.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can build this kind of stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.68,0:03:00.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This mythology of incompetence or the power control
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.79,0:03:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that got us to think that we can't do things for ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.36,0:03:04.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but, we have the power.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.99,0:03:09.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I would inspire people to go out and build yourself.