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Ethical Markets welcomes this new initiative of the Capital Institute and our colleague john fullerton . 
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“When it comes to the “Homebrew” dream of an actual desktop factory, the most promising current development is the Fab Lab. The concept started with MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. The original version of the Fab Lab included CNC laser cutters and milling machines, and a 3-D printer, for a total cost of around $50,000.
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Why do major leaps forward come so rarely in the auto industry? Auto companies like to sneer at legitimately futuristic cars, calling them 'science projects' and saying consumers will never buy them. I believe this is a mistake.
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The original technological revolution of the late Middle Ages, the eotechnic, was associated with the skilled craftsmen of the free towns, and eventually incorporated the fruits of investigation by the early scientists. It began with agricultural innovations like the horse collar, horseshoe and crop rotation. It achieved great advances in the use of wood and glass, masonry, and paper (the latter including the printing press). The agricultural advances of the early second millennium were further built on by the innovations of market gardeners in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—like, for example, raised bed horticulture, composting and intensive soil development, and the hotbeds and greenhouses made possible by advances in cheap production of glass.
Caroline Ivy's curator insight,
March 24, 2015 10:32 AM
Unit 5-This article is about the transition from the Neolithic Revolution to the Second Agricultural Revolution.
The biggest change brought about by the Second Agricultural Revolution was the shift from many small subsistence farms to fewer, larger commercial farms. Improving technology (Steam power, the Mechanical Reaper, intelligent planting methods) meant that, to be cost efficient, agriculture had to be more localized. Harnessing the power of natural gas allowed for faster, more efficient harvesting and yields increased greatly. Thanks to the Second Agricultural Revolution, we are able to feed more people than would have been possible, as it was a stepping stone to even greater production. |
