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'''Q: How would OSE work as a means of moving any technology forward? | '''Q: How would OSE work as a means of moving any technology forward?''' | ||
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OSE has access to fundraising capacity and a talent pool of professionals and open source | OSE has access to fundraising capacity and a talent pool of professionals and open source diehards. Some of the people that we work with are top in their field, and many of them are willing to share their knowledge with us as motivated by a higher purpose: of availing modern, appropriate technology to humankind. Some volunteer to do this, others do it at a fee. The way this works is that OSE is the instigater who makes the connections by engaging directly in a given development. For example, a combination of talent that comes to us - with our social capital and access to networks (TED, funders, and other high level contacts) - we are typically able to fund or move good ideas forward. The key link to this in many cases is being able to attract good talent - and we are able to do this relatively well because of the popularity of our work (such as 1.2M hits on the [[TED Talk]]) | ||
'''Q: How deep do you go into technology?''' | '''Q: How deep do you go into technology?''' | ||
Our goal is to go all the way - to making precision ball bearings, smelting silicon, and extracting aluminum from clay. This is called [[Technological Recursion]]. With a simpler tool, a more complex tool can be made - if the knowhow is available, and if a person can be taugh to do it. The mission of OSE is to liberate that knowhow so that more people have access to doing more advanced things. We foresee a future where the incompetent person does not know how to make a precision ball bearing, just like today an incompetent person is someone who cannot use a computer. | Our goal is to go all the way - to making precision ball bearings, smelting silicon, and extracting aluminum from clay. This is called [[Technological Recursion]]. With a simpler tool, a more complex tool can be made - if the knowhow is available, and if a person can be taugh to do it. The mission of OSE is to liberate that knowhow so that more people have access to doing more advanced things. We foresee a future where the incompetent person does not know how to make a precision ball bearing, just like today an incompetent person is someone who cannot use a computer. | ||
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Q: How would OSE work as a means of moving any technology forward?
OSE has access to fundraising capacity and a talent pool of professionals and open source diehards. Some of the people that we work with are top in their field, and many of them are willing to share their knowledge with us as motivated by a higher purpose: of availing modern, appropriate technology to humankind. Some volunteer to do this, others do it at a fee. The way this works is that OSE is the instigater who makes the connections by engaging directly in a given development. For example, a combination of talent that comes to us - with our social capital and access to networks (TED, funders, and other high level contacts) - we are typically able to fund or move good ideas forward. The key link to this in many cases is being able to attract good talent - and we are able to do this relatively well because of the popularity of our work (such as 1.2M hits on the TED Talk)
Q: How deep do you go into technology?
Our goal is to go all the way - to making precision ball bearings, smelting silicon, and extracting aluminum from clay. This is called Technological Recursion. With a simpler tool, a more complex tool can be made - if the knowhow is available, and if a person can be taugh to do it. The mission of OSE is to liberate that knowhow so that more people have access to doing more advanced things. We foresee a future where the incompetent person does not know how to make a precision ball bearing, just like today an incompetent person is someone who cannot use a computer.