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Benjamin Kaplin | '''Benjamin Kaplin''' | ||
[[Image:0213090948.jpg|thumb|Benjamin Kaplin]] | [[Image:0213090948.jpg|thumb|Benjamin Kaplin]] | ||
I'm a mechanical engineering student, and I support the OSE because a completed Open Source Village kit would represent several orders of magnitude of improvement over existing projects to improve living conditions around the globe with technology. I grew up reading Stephenson, and one of the most powerful images in his book <em>Diamond Age</em> is The Seed, a nanotechnology McGuffin that one of the main characters devotes his life to that would take the control of production and self-determination out of the hands of the McCorporations and put it into the hands of revolutionaries and the impoverished. | I'm a mechanical engineering student, and I support the OSE because a completed Open Source Village kit would represent several orders of magnitude of improvement over existing projects to improve living conditions around the globe with technology. I grew up reading Stephenson, and one of the most powerful images in his book <em>Diamond Age</em> is The Seed, a nanotechnology McGuffin that one of the main characters devotes his life to that would take the control of production and self-determination out of the hands of the McCorporations and put it into the hands of revolutionaries and the impoverished. | ||
Needless to say, nanotech is still several decades away from that dream, and contributing to the True Fans campaign helps a realistic Seed program without pulling me away from my studies. | Needless to say, nanotech is still several decades away from that dream, and contributing to the True Fans campaign helps a realistic Seed program without pulling me away from my studies. | ||
'''Marcin Jakubowski''' | |||
[[Image:marcin.jpg|thumb|Marcin Jakubowski]] | |||
I started the campaign because I have observed how little of humanity's true potential has been tapped. Everyone slaves their life away to a system that is crumbling at the seams, while accepting theft and murder as the usual way to do business. I believe that we can all reach absolute prosperity and evolve to freedom - by becoming skilled and productive [[integrated humans]], and by helping everyone else to be the same. History has shown that this is a general formula for lasting prosperity. | |||
Revision as of 21:12, 15 February 2009
Introduction
True Fans are supporters of the 1000 True Fans - 1000 Global Villages campaign . Here you can read why people have joined the campaign, as a motivation for you to join if you're not already signed up.
True Fans
Benjamin Kaplin
I'm a mechanical engineering student, and I support the OSE because a completed Open Source Village kit would represent several orders of magnitude of improvement over existing projects to improve living conditions around the globe with technology. I grew up reading Stephenson, and one of the most powerful images in his book Diamond Age is The Seed, a nanotechnology McGuffin that one of the main characters devotes his life to that would take the control of production and self-determination out of the hands of the McCorporations and put it into the hands of revolutionaries and the impoverished. Needless to say, nanotech is still several decades away from that dream, and contributing to the True Fans campaign helps a realistic Seed program without pulling me away from my studies.
Marcin Jakubowski
I started the campaign because I have observed how little of humanity's true potential has been tapped. Everyone slaves their life away to a system that is crumbling at the seams, while accepting theft and murder as the usual way to do business. I believe that we can all reach absolute prosperity and evolve to freedom - by becoming skilled and productive integrated humans, and by helping everyone else to be the same. History has shown that this is a general formula for lasting prosperity.