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Please join us for the next CITRIS Research Exchange at the Banatao Institute at Berkeley this semester:
"Making the Future: What DIY Culture is Telling Us About Tomorrow"
David Pescovitz [Co-editor of BoingBoing.net and Research Director at Institute for the Future]
12:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 21
Banatao Auditorium, 3rd floor, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
http://www.citris-uc.org/events/RE-Oct-21
The complete schedule for the semester is online at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/RE-fall2009. As always, these talks are free, open to the public and broadcast live online at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast, and questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents. Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.
Abstract:
Two future forces, one mostly social, one mostly technological, are intersecting to transform how goods, services, and experiences—the “stuff” of our world—will be designed, manufactured, and distributed over the next decade. An emerging do-it-yourself culture of “makers” is boldly voiding warranties to tweak, hack, and customize the products they buy. And what they can’t purchase, they build from scratch. Meanwhile, flexible manufacturing technologies on the horizon will change fabrication from massive and centralized to lightweight and ad hoc. These trends sit atop a platform of grassroots economics—new market structures developing online that embody a shift from stores and sales to communities and connections.
Biography:
David Pescovitz is co-editor of the popular blog BoingBoing.net, a research director at Institute for the Future, and editor-at-large of MAKE: magazine. From 2001 to 2007 he was the UC Berkeley College of Engineering's first writer-in-residence. An alum of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, he has written about science and technology for Wired, the New York Times, Scientific American, Popular Science, New Scientist, IEEE Spectrum, and many other publications.
We look forward to seeing you there!
best, Yvette
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