Are you ready for 3-D printing? | McKinsey & Company - 0 views
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But patent expirations and new entrants in Asia should apply downward pressure over the next ten years
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The cost of materials ought to drop in the long term as third-party firms become credible alternative powder suppliers and as increased demand for powder enhances scale efficiencies more generally
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Throughput rates are expected to increase on the back of growing laser power, higher numbers of lasers, and better projection technology. All of that will serve to reduce expensive machine time
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Overly focused on additive 3d printing (the ecosystem of automated fabrication (ie fablab scale) and its exponential cost decreases are far more interesting). The expiration of patents in the space is also a key feature of the current transformation, and should prompt discussions of dysfunctional IPR. Comments on costs trends are also supportive. No mention of the next big thing which is cradle to cradle desktop manufacturing.
Evolving Towards a Partner State in an Ethical Economy - 0 views
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In the emerging institutional model of peer production
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we can distinguish an interplay between three partners
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a community of contributors that create a commons of knowledge, software or design;
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Permaculture Principles | Design Principles - 1 views
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how the principles of permaculture might apply to business.
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The shift will be from merely prioritising output to thinking more widely.
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how to build resilience for business
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The Revolution at hand - Op-Ed - Domus - 0 views
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Currently, our education prepares us to perform a job — at times any job — that pays us in terms of what we can possess and consume or, in other words, the goods that design and mass production consider to be to our satisfaction — at least partially.
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We have produced artificial needs for years under this mantra
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creating almost nonexistent necessities that are readily available and easy to narrate rather than investigating the problems and real needs of people and communities
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If not Global Captalism - then What? - 0 views
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I posit an optimistic view of the potential for Society from the emergence of a new and “Open” form of Capitalism.
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Open Capital
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the concept of “Open” Capital is “so simple…. it repels the mind".
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HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT - 1 views
How Many Kinds of Property are There? - 0 views
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Whenever a group of people depend on a resource that everybody uses but nobody owns, and where one person’s use effects another person’s ability to use the resource, either the population fails to provide the resource, overconsumes and/or fails to replenish it, or they construct an institution for undertaking and managing collective action.
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Common-pool resources may be owned by national, regional, or local [1]governments; by [2] communal groups; by [3] private individuals or corporations; or used as open access resources by whomever can gain access
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Based on her survey, Ostrom distilled this list of common design principles from the experience of successful governance institutions: Clearly defined boundaries. Individuals or households who have rights to withdraw resource units from the CPR must be clearly defined, as must the boundaries of the CPR itself. Congruence between appropriation and provision rules and local conditions. Appropriation rules restricting time, place, technology, and/or quantity of resource units are related to local conditions and to provision rules requiring labour, material, and/or money. Collective-choice arrangements. Most individuals affected by the operational rules can participate in modifying the operational rules [how refreshing. Standing!]. Monitoring. Monitors, who actively audit CPR conditions and appropriator behavior, are accountable to the appropriators or are the appropriators. Graduated sanctions. Appropriators who violate operational rules are likely to be assessed graduated sanctions (depending on the seriousness and context of the offence) by other appropriators, by officials accountable to these appropriators, or by both. Conflict-resolution mechanisms. Appropriators and their officials have rapid access to low-cost local arenas to resolve conflicts among appropriators or between appropriators and officials. Minimal recognition of rights to organize. The rights of appropriators to devise their own institutions are not challenged by external governmental authorities. For CPRs that are parts of larger systems: Nested enterprises. Appropriation, provision, monitoring, enforcement, conflict resolution, and governance activities are organized in multiple layers of nested enterprises.
Places to Intervene in a System by Donella H. Meadows - developer.*, Developer Dot Star - 0 views
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Folks who do systems analysis have a great belief in "leverage points."
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where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything.
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backward intuition
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Dependability in peer production - 1 views
measures that p2p networks undertake to increase dependability in material peer production activities.
Boundaryless - 3 views
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Dig this source, Simone Cicero is involved, must be full of info !
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They work under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. it says everywhere that their material is OS but I can't seem to bae able to find it.
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