Pay more attention to make ideas real. Realize that we are no longer limited to low cost and accessible options for creating things only in terms of computers and digital media, if you want to build chairs, tables, toys, or anything else that you can imagine, it’s even easier than ever before.
We all need a severe lesson in understanding the state of the world right now. Without understanding the entire picture we can only have a perspective that is driven by blindness and ignorance.
That’s the way I feel about this idea of being able to use open source collaboration methods in building something real. It’s just so alien to me. It’s also something that large publications will be able to do better than niche content providers. Discovery. Niche blogs can only ever by definition help you get better or learn more about any one particular thing. Being bigger gives you the freedom to bring in the new, and to cover the revolution as it happens.
Peer production, open source, crowd sourcing, DIY and UGC – all these digital phenomena are starting to play out in the world of atoms, too. The Web was just the proof of concept. Now the revolution gets real. – Chris Anderson
The Year That Matters is a series by Malcolm Bastien that goes through the ideas and concepts presented in Seth Godin and Friends’ ebook, What Matters Now. Each day a new idea from the ebook will be reviewed and discussed. Subscribe to Open Mode to get the entire series.
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- Open source hardware – feature story in Wired – In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits (makezine.com)
