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Consumerism V Craft
Simon McCartney
November 12, 2013
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Consumerism V Craft
Is consumerism harming our desire to understand how things work?
Simon McCartney
November 12, 2013
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Consumerism v Craft Simon McCartney slow mover @simonmcc Thursday, 14
November 13
anti-anti-snowflake Thursday, 14 November 13
Has the rush to own things diminished our desire to
understand how they work? Thursday, 14 November 13
Thursday, 14 November 13
Do you know how the things you own are made?
Thursday, 14 November 13
Thursday, 14 November 13
Could you make fix any of the things you own?
(Ikea doesn’t count) Thursday, 14 November 13
Building an Apple I from parts Thursday, 14 November 13
Roger W Smith • The Daniels Method • 32 individual
skills required • 6 months to make a watch from scratch Thursday, 14 November 13
quality is not something that we create in an instance,
it’s something that takes time, it takes thought Thursday, 14 November 13
Dieing Skills (in the UK at least) Thursday, 14 November
13
Why is understanding important? Thursday, 14 November 13
When today’s machines get smarter, today’s young workers get poorer
and sa Thursday, 14 November 13
When today’s machines get smarter, today’s young workers get poorer
and save less. - Jeffrey Sachs & Laurence Kotilikoff Thursday, 14 November 13
HT Paul Rhodes Thursday, 14 November 13
Thursday, 14 November 13
http://lifehacker.com/5848640/how-do-i-fix-my-bricked-iphone-ipad-or-ipod-touch Thursday, 14 November 13
Understand how things are made • So that you can
fix them • So that you can automate them properly • So you can improve them Thursday, 14 November 13
Credits • http://www.rwsmithwatches.com/ • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24211691 • http://www.heritagecrafts.org.uk/index.php/ support/save-our-skills-appeal • http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8586172.stm
• http://schmenk.is-a-geek.com/Apple.html • http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/ Thursday, 14 November 13