To understand the implications and witness some of the innovations - need to learn Spanish
All is not necesarily positive and maker tech and processes can be used to undermine community as much as build
As the manufacturing collapse ground zero there is interesting work in urban renewal.
Solving everyday problems with African Ingenuity
http://www.afrigadget.com/
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/issue-058/mark-grimes-maker-faire-africa-the-net-doing/
“The project is of an extreme interest because it looks at bottom-up innovation where people decide what are their needs and what are the best ways to satisfy them. In african countries there is a strong need for this crucial switch in the approach to technology and society because it can potentially drive to a re-shaping of power balances with the rest of the world.”
http://guerrillatranslation.com/2013/09/12/globalp2p-the-wind-that-shook-the-net/
Wikihouse
http://www.wikihouse.cc/
Complete open source plans to build cheap housing
http://techonomy.com/2012/09/the-maker-movement-a-bottom-up-industrial-revolution/
http://techonomy.com/2012/10/makers-middle-class-manufacturers/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbsrbdjwFfE&feature=youtu.be
Hardware start up with novices and professionals working together. Everything from expresso machine repair to robots.
http://dashes.com/anil/
On the Maker Revolution
http://dashes.com/anil/2010/09/when-the-revolution-comes-they-wont-recognize-it.html
http://makerspace.com/
USA focused but comprehensive coverage
Bruce Stirling
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond
Always wonderful and allergic to hype
Daniel Kahneman
Because we are not as smart as we think we are
http://blog.longnow.org/02013/08/29/daniel-kahneman-seminar-media/
David McRaney
Because we all are deluded
http://youarenotsosmart.com/
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/
Heart of the P2P movement in many ways.
Good international coverage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtgJILMBjFU#t=335
Excellent overview
http://makerspace.com/profiles/pilot-school-profile-athenian-school-in-danville
Great setup and innovative courses
http://www.libraryasincubatorproject.org/
Pushing Libraries into new spaces and activities. Great weekly round up
http://www.shareable.net/blog/government-support-for-coworking-in-australia
Ursula K Le Guin
http://www.ursulakleguin.com/ACH/
Written long before the Maker Movement. About maintaining technology in a degraded environment and building culture.
Neville Shute
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustee_from_the_Toolroom
A good man who, through a connection of world wide makers manages to help a niece.
Cory Doctrow
http://craphound.com/makers/download/
Download for free
About “”people who hack hardware, business-models, and living arrangements to discover ways of staying alive and happy even when the economy is falling down the toilet”
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/sep/13/buses-bristol-pounds-local-currency