Consumerism V Craft

Is consumerism harming our desire to understand how things work?

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1. Consumerism v Craft Simon McCartney slow mover @simonmcc Thursday, 14 November 13
2. anti-anti-snowflake Thursday, 14 November 13
3. Has the rush to own things diminished our desire to understand how they work? Thursday, 14 November 13
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5. Do you know how the things you own are made? Thursday, 14 November 13
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7. Could you make fix any of the things you own? (Ikea doesn’t count) Thursday, 14 November 13
8. Building an Apple I from parts Thursday, 14 November 13
9. Roger W Smith • The Daniels Method • 32 individual skills required • 6 months to make a watch from scratch Thursday, 14 November 13
10. quality is not something that we create in an instance, it’s something that takes time, it takes thought Thursday, 14 November 13
11. Dieing Skills (in the UK at least) Thursday, 14 November 13
12. Why is understanding important? Thursday, 14 November 13
13. When today’s machines get smarter, today’s young workers get poorer and sa Thursday, 14 November 13
14. When today’s machines get smarter, today’s young workers get poorer and save less. - Jeffrey Sachs & Laurence Kotilikoff Thursday, 14 November 13
15. HT Paul Rhodes Thursday, 14 November 13
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17. http://lifehacker.com/5848640/how-do-i-fix-my-bricked-iphone-ipad-or-ipod-touch Thursday, 14 November 13
18. 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
19. 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