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Excerpted from William Irwin Thompson: “DECENTRALIZATION of cities and the miniaturization of technology will alter the center-periphery dialectic of traditional civilization and make a whole new cultural level possible. What will take place in the metaindustrial village will be that the four classical economies of human history, hunting and gathering, agriculture, industry, and cybernetics, will … 
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This proposal consists on a fab city made up of an interconnected community of neighborhood fab labs, as explained here by Tomas Diez, who is interviewed below by Sara Alvarellos:
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“Recently, a number of articles and videos about 3D printing of houses in China have gone viral, catalyzing a lot of attention for this very promising subject.
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Now that we have some understanding of why 20th century attempts at the industrialization of building were such abject failures we can better appreciate the potential revolution eluded to in this Ancient Lasers article. It is far more than just a revolution in automation. It’s not simply obsolescing building contractors. It’s industrial technology that radically changes the way of building, facilitating something that is more consistent with the original, organic, nature of architecture itself, and which past industrial technology and paradigms were simply inadequate to. Facilitating potentially great economy with a design freedom that was once well expressed in pre-industrial times, despite the limits in technology, but could not be economically sustained under Industrial Age paradigms with their market logic, over-specialization of labor, and ‘over-professionalization’ of the craft of the built habitat.
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“People centered” means that control of infrastructure, access, distribution, resources, and co-governance are now on the scale of the individual person. When an individual person with this empowerment reaches their individual carrying capacity to operate, they will tend to reach out to others who are operating like them, and a connection-based network will emerge. Economic development here targets individuals operating as self-employed independents who network together. Independents, small businesses, community groups, working together, with government, higher education, and larger business are the new economic driver. The more control people have an on individual scale of infrastructure, access, distribution, resources, and governance, *and* the more connectivity there is between those people, the that more growth happens in “people centered economic development”. When control of infrastructure, access, distribution, resources, and co-governance are now on the scale of the individual person, a new way of coopertive co-managing of existing resources, and surpluses of production tends to emerge. That new way of co-managing is known as “Resource Sharing”."
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Ouishare Fest 2014 presentation via Tomas Diez on Evolving From Fab Labs To Fab Cities
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“I’ve long been interested in construction automation, both for use in space and for domestic uses. Unable to employ much sweat equity in building myself, I’ve long been interested in the idea of building the machines that might build for me. One concept that I’ve wanted to explore was self-assembling space frame systems based on a scheme devised by designer Scott Howe;
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