Punk Manufacturing: The next revolution

This reminds me of Makers, Cory Doctorow's new book. It takes place in a not so distant future where corporations fund tiny startups of a few hackers each to create products. It ends up becoming a revolution of sorts, with the millions of unemployed americans jumping to create.<p>It's awesome to see ordinary people use technology the way they did before things went digital. To be able to fix, modify and reuse components of devices they own. To understand how something works and learn from it. The values that inspired the free software movement applied back to real life.

I never read that Doctorow article but will now and the book sounds fun. But he is wrong if he thinks punk was about reaching a destination. I was there. It was about energy (or in his words, process).