http://www.davidbenque.com/projects/fabulous-fabbers
*I rather doubt this Royal College of Art student has ever read (or heard) my science fiction story "Kiosk," but if you compare his design project and my SF story, you can see that they serve quite similar social functions.
*And given that people actually make the cover of Cory Doctorow's MAKERS...
Well, throw in a little crowd-sourced Henry Jenkins convergence-culture,
monetize that somehow (or else go underground with it) and we're into
a whole new scene. Imagine this RCA guy's travelling fab show inhabited
by Burning Man zealots who collect crowds by Twittering. And it's
also a sci-fi convention. And a Maker Faire.
*Why would there be any difference any more? Clay Shirky would
show up, and in about five minutes he would explain that this aggregation was
inevitable once the barriers to entry had collapsed and the transaction
costs had disappeared. And he might even be right.
*More: In other design-fiction news today, Stuart "Futuryst" Candy visits Cranbrook Academy of Art.
http://futuryst.blogspot.com/2010/03/reperceiving-detroit.html
