Next Phase GVCS in 2 Minutes

We would like to create a sequel to the GVCS in 2 Minutes. Chris Traub of Strategic Executive Search whom I met at TED told me that my next step towards recruiting should be refining our message. So I am thinking of organizing a sprint/hackathon where we get scriptwriter/branding/animation people together to put together a script that would be the sequel to the GVCS in 2 Minutes and my TED Talk, and would really aim at explaining in 2 minutes how to turn dirt and twigs into advanced civilization That is difficult for people to wrap their head around, yet is to me so clear, not only in feasibility but execution. It is a constant frustration to me that I can't explain it to others.

The specs are:

• Language agnostic - so it would have to be in the style of the Full Printed explainer video - in speechless clarity.
• Explains the GVCS with just enough technical detail to inspire people with feasibility, but not too much
• Gets people to understand that they can do it, too
• Focus on life-size legos as the metaphor?

Problem:

• The technical feasibility of this is beyond the scope of most people
• Even further beyond the scope is that people can do this themselves

Background Materials

• 50 GVCS Machines - official list of the 50 machines for building a small civilization with modern comforts
• GVCS in 2 Minutes - first quality explainer produced on the GVCS, 3 years ago
• GVCS TED Talk - talk at the TED Conference, which has taken the GVCS to the world stage
• 1 Day Production Run - extreme efficiencies of collaborative production demonstrated in Dec, 2012, where we achieved radical efficiency of producing a complex, 2000 lb machine in a Single Day, with largely unskilled participants.
• OSE Character Brief explains the Promise of OSE, and others are beginning to Sing About It.
• Time Best Inventions 2013 - Others see the promise of our work.

• Makeblock - a Kickstarter project - an extension of Lego that includes electronics and precision, which shows the best example of a miniature version of what the GVCS has yet to deliver in a life-size version

Treatment

Based on the concept of legos and Makeblock as the extension of Legos to life-size machines, we can conceptualize a building system that radically democratizes the ability of any individual to build things regardless of the person's technical abilities. OSE has demonstrated the beginnings of such a life-size system, and OSE achieved radical efficiency of producing complex machines in a single day - with unskilled labor. Open source, modular design is the key to making this happen. We are now seeing that the entire 50 GVCS machines can be produced in 50 days, and a modern community can be built from this. The main questions that many ask are 2-fold: (1) How does a small subset of our machines magically allow all the important infrastructure services to happen? (2) And more importantly, how is it ever feasible to create a minimum, multipurpose Swiss Army Knife for a new civilization? (3) Most importantly, how is this ever within reach of non-geeks?

The goal of this explainer would be to address these questions. (1)