From: Patrick Salsbury (salsbury_at_sculptors.com)
Date: 05/19/02
Message-Id: <200205192237.g4JMbxQ14048@bootstrap.sculptors.com> Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 15:37:59 -0700 From: Patrick Salsbury <salsbury_at_sculptors.com> Subject: ThinkCycle - Open Source design and invention project from MIT
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Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 15:37:59 -0700
From: Patrick Salsbury <salsbury_at_bootstrap.sculptors.com>
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I've had a couple of friends point me toward this. It looks like a great
resource for people concerned with problems the the ones we discuss here
(shelter, clean water, food supply, etc.)
http://www.thinkcycle.org/home
There's more description and discussion on Slashdot:
http://science.slashdot.org/science/02/05/16/1647211.shtml?tid=134
Here's a quote:
Posted by timothy on Thursday May 16, @02:44PM
from the hope-some-good-comes-out-of-it dept.
eaglemoon writes: "ThinkCycle is an MIT Media Lab project to apply
SETI_at_Home principles to design problems for underserved communities.
Only, intead of donating spare cpu cycles, you donate spare 'think cycles.'
Their aim is to build a community of designers, inventors and innovators
that want to collaborate on developing novel solutions to some what
intractable problems like clean water access , cholera treatment and
appropriate shelters. Their aim is to encourage an "open source" ethos
for tough design and technology challenges."
I haven't had time to really dig in much, but I've liked what I see so far. I
suspect that we would probably do the ThinkCycle community some good by
joining up with them and cross-linking some of the web archives of our
discussions to some of their projects. They're working on some of the same
goals, and we've got a 5-7 year lead on them, so we should make sure they know
some of what's gone before. (I've noticed that there's a lot of "reinventing
the wheel" mainly because people haven't studied their history very well.)
As usual, I am swamped, so I encourage all of you to check it out and
build links as you see appropriate. And create new pages in the Reality
Sculptors Wiki: http://reality.sculptors.com/cgi-bin/wiki
We've got lots of resources and infrastructure, but only so much
bandwidth, each. I gave up on trying to do it all by myself years ago, so I
welcome all the help I can get! :-)
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Pat
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I've had a couple of friends point me toward this. It looks like a great
resource for people concerned with problems the the ones we discuss here
(shelter, clean water, food supply, etc.)
http://www.thinkcycle.org/home
There's more description and discussion on Slashdot:
http://science.slashdot.org/science/02/05/16/1647211.shtml?tid=134
Here's a quote:
Posted by timothy on Thursday May 16, @02:44PM
from the hope-some-good-comes-out-of-it dept.
eaglemoon writes: "ThinkCycle is an MIT Media Lab project to apply
SETI_at_Home principles to design problems for underserved communities.
Only, intead of donating spare cpu cycles, you donate spare 'think cycles.'
Their aim is to build a community of designers, inventors and innovators
that want to collaborate on developing novel solutions to some what
intractable problems like clean water access , cholera treatment and
appropriate shelters. Their aim is to encourage an "open source" ethos
for tough design and technology challenges."
I haven't had time to really dig in much, but I've liked what I see so far. I
suspect that we would probably do the ThinkCycle community some good by
joining up with them and cross-linking some of the web archives of our
discussions to some of their projects. They're working on some of the same
goals, and we've got a 5-7 year lead on them, so we should make sure they know
some of what's gone before. (I've noticed that there's a lot of "reinventing
the wheel" mainly because people haven't studied their history very well.)
As usual, I am swamped, so I encourage all of you to check it out and
build links as you see appropriate. And create new pages in the Reality
Sculptors Wiki: http://reality.sculptors.com/cgi-bin/wiki
We've got lots of resources and infrastructure, but only so much
bandwidth, each. I gave up on trying to do it all by myself years ago, so I
welcome all the help I can get! :-)
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Pat
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