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The Open Source Solution [Video]

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As governments and corporations around the world move to make their actions and products ever more opaque, a counter-movement is rallying around the opposite of flag of openness and transparency. Borrowing its metaphor from the programming creed of “open source,” this movement is moving beyond the world of bits and bytes to find innovative, collaborative and open solutions to a whole host of problems confronting our everyday lives. Find out more about the open source solution in this week’s GRTV Backgrounder.

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New Low Cost Affordable 3D Printer Unveiled

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LowCost3dPrinterA step towards making 3D printing affordable has been made at Michigan Technological University, which presented an open-source 3D metal printer for only $1,500. Detailed plans and software are all open-source and freely available, too.

So far affordable 3D printing has been more about using polymers. Yet we all know that the ‘real thing’ must be made of metal. But the price of 3D metal printers has been the major stumbling block towards making the use of this truly 21st century technology an everyday routine. That is why only wealthy scientific organizations, such as NASA, or the military can afford metal 3D printers that cost well over $500,000. Continue reading →

What’s Your View On Bitcoin? – Questions For Corbett #011 [Video]

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CorbettReport  November 9 2013

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As James prepares to deliver a keynote address to an open source conference in France this month, he takes some time out of his schedule to answer some of the questions that have come in for #QFC. Topics include the depopulation agenda, localization, Japan’s “sexless” youth, Gladio B, anarchy and the environment, and the insurance on the Twin Towers.

SHOW NOTES AND MP3: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=8228