View of the Obelisk of Thutmose I (r. ca. 1506-1493 BC), Court of the 4th pylon, Karnak Temple Complex. The ancient Egyptians were originally called them tekhenuwhich means “to pierce” as in “to pierce the sky”.
“How many women thus waste life away the prey of discontent, who might have practised as physicians, regulated a farm, managed a shop, and stood erect, supported by their own industry, instead of hanging their heads surcharged with the dew of sensibility, that consumes the beauty to which it at first gave lustre.”
— Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (via philosophybits)
How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware
Initiatives like OpenStructures, Grid Beam, and Contraptor combine the modularity of systems like LEGO, Meccano and Erector with the collaborative power of digital success stories like Wikipedia, Linux or WordPress.
An economy based on the concept of re-use would not only bring important advantages in terms of sustainability, but would also save consumers money, speed up innovation, and take manufacturing out of the hands of multinationals.
