Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization | Video on TED.com

Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization | Video on TED.com

This guy is fantastic. The idea of making needed machines that are built for a lifetime and not built for obsolesces is AN INCREDIBLY GOOD IDEA.

Imagine buying a car when you were 17 and having it for 20 or 30 years. Maybe longer! Of course things would break, but the repairs would be cheap and simple because the car itself was cheap and simple. Ideas like this meet a lot of resistance with corporations that are always making bigger and better for the consumers that demand nothing less than bigger and better, but I ask you to explain the sense in that.