Makers

Building a Better You: Makers Hack the Human Body

Building a Better You: Makers Hack the Human Body

Aided by affordable materials, 3D printers, and open source technology, the merging of human and machine is a thriving subset of the maker community. Next week’s World Maker Faire New York will showcase a number of these projects and the makers who made them. These projects are also a testament to the best impulses of human nature: once we possess new skills and technology we look for ways to use them as a force for good and to share them with others.

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Seismic Shifts: Dark Ages, Industrial Age, and Now…the Maker Age?

At the ground level, the maker movement is empowering people in garages and makerspaces to hack, tinker, and share technology to suit their needs rather than wait for others to make it for us. But collectively, the maker movement has set something much bigger in motion. It’s a force that has the power to change the course of history.That’s heady stuff, but according to thinkers Dough Rushkoff and Karim Asry that’s the potential of the maker movement. They see us standing standing on the edge of a new era—the maker era. Both men will be making this point during presentations at Maker Faire New York next week.

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