Year: 2013

Seismic Shifts: Dark Ages, Industrial Age, and Now…the Maker Age?

At the ground level, the maker movement is empowering people in garages and makerspaces to hack, tinker, and share technology to suit their needs rather than wait for others to make it for us. But collectively, the maker movement has set something much bigger in motion. It’s a force that has the power to change the course of history.That’s heady stuff, but according to thinkers Dough Rushkoff and Karim Asry that’s the potential of the maker movement. They see us standing standing on the edge of a new era—the maker era. Both men will be making this point during presentations at Maker Faire New York next week.