Bioneers Script

Intent

Take OSE Brand + personal story + Collaborative Production to full expression of the vision of open source economic development.

Sample: TED Talk Script - 4 minutes

Open Source Ecology - TED Fellows Talk - 4 Minutes

This is the final talk that Marcin delivered at TED, with cadence notes.

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slideHi, my name is Marcin. I'm a farmer – technologist / from Poland now in the US / I started a group called slideOpen Source Ecology - and we took on a very big, hairy, audacious goal. We identified the 50 most important machines that allow modern life to exist – the basic tools that we all - rely on - every day / whether we know it or not / everything from a Tractor slide to an oven slide to a circuit maker slide. Then we create an open source, DIY version that anyone can build and maintain at a fraction of the cost. slide

We call this the Global Village Construction Set. slide

Is this reinventing the wheel? Yes. Let me tell you a story.

I finished my 20's with a Phd in fusion energy slide and I discovered - that I was useless / I had no practical skills / The world presented me with options and I took them, slide I guess you would call this the consumer lifestyle.

So I started a farm slide in Missouri / and I learned about the economics of farming. I bought a tractor slide // and it broke slide / I paid to repair it slide/ and it broke again slide / and then soon enough / I was broke, too slide. I realized that the truly appropriate - low-cost tools / that I needed / to build a sustainable farm and settlement - just - didn’t - exist yet.

I needed tools that were slide robust / slide modular / slide highly efficient / slide low cost / slide made from local or recycled materials / slide and, that were designed for a lifetime - not obsolescence. I realized slide I'd have to build 'em myself.

I did just that / slide and I tested them / I found that industrial productivity - can be achieved - on a small scale. // I posted all the slide designs, schematics, instructional videos, and budgets onto a wiki. slide Then contributors from all - around - the world began slide showing up - prototyping new machines slide - during dedicated project visits slide / To date, we prototyped slide 8 of the 50 machines / and now the project is beginning - to grow on its own slide

We know open source has succeeded with software slide and with tools for managing knowledge slide / and creativity. Despite a lot of early skepticism / it's beginning to happen with slide hardware too.

We're focusing on hardware - because it’s hardware that can slidechange - people's – lives - in such tangible - material ways. If we can lower the barriers to farming - building - and manufacturing - then we can unleash massive amounts of human potential. slide

And not only in the developing world. slide We’ve seen lots of excitement from American farmers / makers / and builders - who can use our free published library to start a construction business slide - a parts factory - an organic CSA - or just to sell energy back to the grid. / Our goal is to publish slidea library of instructional material so complete / so clear / that a single burned DVD - is effectively a civilization starter kit.

slideI’ve planted a hundred - trees in a day. I’ve pressedslide five - thousand - bricks in a day from dirt beneath my feet. I’ve slidebuilt a tractor in 6 days. I'm fairly certain this is just the beginning.

If this idea is truly sound, then the implications are significant: slideA greater distribution of the means of production, environmentally sound supply chains, and a newly relevant DIY Maker culture that can hope to transcend artificial scarcity. We're asking the question, what - are the limits - to - getting - technology - right? // Thank You. slide

Content - 20 minutes - About 5x as long as TED Talk - 5 Pages Long words

I believe in freedom . I believe that true freedom - the most essential type of freedom - starts with our ability to use natural resources to free ourselves from material constraints. And I believe that ongoing resource conflicts, fractional reserve banking, and an unstable global economy are the clearest expressions of the lack of such freedom. I believe that the route to that freedom is the open source economy.

I was born in Poland. I remember tanks rolling down my streets - and it wasn't a parade. These were the times behind the iron curtain. This was a clear state of material scarcity - where I had to wait in line for butter and meat. Poland is one of those places with a good history of conflict, surrounded by powerful neighbors. My grandfather was in the Polish underground derailing German trains in WWII, and my grandmother was in a concentration camp.

So I thought about the terrible things that happen when resources are scarce and people fight over opportunity.

I came to America when I was 10. It was great, until many years after that - I noticed that there was another type of scarcity in the West - one of planned obsolescence and debt - where people live on money that they do not have. It manifests as excess, but it is based on artificial material scarcity.

What is artificial material scarcity? Think of it this way: in the absolute abundance of resources - namely sunlight, rocks, plants, soil, water, air - from which all the wealth of the economy comes - the distribution of these processed resources is skewed - such that poverty, hunger, and war are the norm in today's world. In the digital world, many think that we can just write an app to make these problems go away - but the answer is deeper - and that answer requires addressing basic material production - as the source of our freedom.

My case is for mastering material production - as the most fundamental route to freedom. The story in America, and in former Poland, or any country in Africa or elsewhere - is a story of finance capital and productive infrastructures skewing power and access to those who hold the keys - most fundamentally - to material production. that is the base layer. That is the layer upon which finance and internet platforms operate on top of.

I believe that true freedom starts with freedom from material constraints. I also believe that the effects of freedom from material constraints are much deeper than the possibility of ending resource conflicts, poverty, and hunger. I believe that freedom from material constraints leads us to autonomy - where we regain control of our lives, our communities, and our world - where it is no longer money and power but ethics that determines the course of human and political action. This is why I started open source ecology.

Autonomy gives us freedom to pursue mastery - towards a higher purpose. Autonomy is what gives us the freedom to pursue ethics - as we no longer are stuck in the daily grind of putting bread on our table - but have cognitive surplus to look farther beyond. So we then begin to clean up our politics in our own backyards, and international criminal cases such as child soldiers who are forced to kill their parents.

So now to the nuts and bolts. To arrive at the open source economy, we are developing the Global Village Construction Set - a set of the 50 industrial machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts. We take industry standards and convert them to simple, open source, modular, lifetime design counterparts - meeting or exceeding industry standards at a fraction of the cost.

The unique feature is that the entire GVCS can be packed into a 40 foot shipping container. Then, this set can be deployed to create an entire modern economy - from raw land - where as few as 12 people can