Bright and early next Tuesday morning, I’ll hop aboard a plane and wing my way to New York to spend what’s coming to be called “Maker Week” embedded with our editorial team covering all the amazing events that lead up to, and include, World Maker Faire New York.
In Ken’s column this week, he unveils the Boy Scouts/Hacker Scouts poll results, catches up with Pedalusion, gives the crowdfunding report, and more!
Working at the heart of MAKE’s Editorial team is like being the small pebble that starts rolling down an Alpine hill, gathering layers of snow until we bash into something (often Daffy Duck).
I think it’s a very safe argument to make that the Craftsman movement in the early 20th century was something of a progenitor for our current Maker Movement, in that it was a reaction to the excesses of overwrought Victorian design, it sought to bring form back in line with function, and imbue a simplicity and individual spirit into the things people made that had been lost in the Industrial Revolution.
What makes the Maker Movement a disctinct thing is the communication and sharing allowed by the Internet. That makers who were once isolated are now connected, and that the networking allowed by these connections amplifies the creative effect by orders of magnitude. It’s kind of like a Maker Singularity.
