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We may be at a turning point in humanity. With AI emerging as a potential threat - and promise - we take 2026 to attemp the OSE Model of Change. Our model is to train oodles of young people to be system transformers, veritable civilization systems engineers - using collaborative and open source methods. Many updated institutions need updating, so we take this as a chance to do massively positive work with purpose. Some clear areas are solving meaning, housing, energy, manufacturing, environmental, governance, and social justice issues.
We begin with topics such as housing, energy, agriculture, and manufacturing - absorbing the primary sector of the economy and working on collaborative methods to rebuild the world. We found a revenue model on hyper-efficient construction, so we are starting an induction where students build homes 2 days and spend the rest of the time learning how to transform the world. We are also developing a Denerate kernel for modular technology, the Global Village Construction Set. To democratize design so that average people can design and build engineered technology - we are introducing the Iconic CAD Workflow - which leverages human language and AI to generate real design in FreeCAD - along with all the documentation to to make design replicable and contribution scalable.
GVCS
We are estimating an effort requirement of about 50000 hours to opensource and democratize each tool of the Global Village Construction Set, of which there are fifty. That is equivalent to the effort of about 24 people working full time for a year, or a team of 24 providing the leadership of a 1000 more participants remotely, who can collaborate in a tightly-coordinated, Time-Binding way. 1000 people collaborating would mean 50% efficiency or better - or about 2 hours of volunteer time per day. Our dashboard would thus show 2 dials - one for 1000 contributors remote, and one for the 24 - if the dial is cranked up, we have a full effort.
Extreme Collaboration Method
The extreme collaboration method involves BHAGs, such as opensourcing and thus distributing the wealth of entire sectors. Such as housing, or solar hydrogen, solar steel and concrete, windpower, and 3D printing. And many more. Total market size of about $11T, or 1/10 of the economy.
Key Areas
Housing is an $11T global market, with $4T in residential alone. Opensourcing housing can make housing affordable, as major market control makes housing expensive [1]. To solve housing we propose the modular Seed Eco-Home, which can be reconfigured and redesigned for all types of size, shape, and performance - by average individuals using Iconic CAD.
Solar Hydrogen is a big one - hydrogen cracked from water by alkaline electrolysis - with payback times on the order of 4 months. This is a great study where growth of this could be extreme if distributed - as the total addressable market for fossil fuels, which hydrogen can replace - is about $6T. This could reduce resource conflict pressure worldwide, clean up the environment, and distribute 10% of global wealth. With housing, we could distribute 20% of all global wealth. The good thing about solar hydrogen is that the stack itself is $10k for 100kW - lends itself to non-hi tech manufacturing with off-the-shelf parts. The separator membranes are not exotic, unlike in more advanced proton exchange membrane electrolyzers - see Open Source Electrolyzer
Solar concrete is next. This builds infrastructure material from rock and solar electricity converted to resistive heat in Kanthal wire.
Dirt is next. Compressed Earth Blocks are still a great idea. Bulletproof and tornado proof, though if unstabilized, need to protect from rain.