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A maker is someone who likes using technological opportunities to make things.
Take something out there, modify it, make it different, or make something new and exciting.
I think everyone has a bit of that drive to become makers in them,
but not everybody acts on it and this is something the maker movement is now helping to change.
More people are finding their inner makers, and that's great.
For me this is part of a tradition to do with developing our human society.
We know humanity took a pretty big leap when we first learned how to communicate verbally.
Meaning we can solve more complex problems because I don't need to know everything.
Instead I can talk to you, you know things, so we can cooperate.
This ability to solve problems took another giant leap when we learned how to write,
because at that point I no longer needed to be able to talk to you or have a long oral tradition to transfer information.
I can write it down, you can learn it. It accelerated with the invention of printing, which made the entire Industrial Revolution possible.
The communications revolutions in our history mean that society has made great leaps in complexity, in what we can do together.
The Internet came along and interconnected us all. Now we no longer have to worry about geographical restrictions.
We can reach one another all over the planet at the speed of light, planting seeds of knowledge that anyone can find.
In turn meaning that human coexistence is now on totally different terms, whether we are talking about education, commerce or the democratic process.
And the process is only a few years old.
The ability to create a product you have right there in front of you has never been as easy as today, or as possible.
And that makes more people get involved.
You can get a decent 3D printer for under 10,000 Swedish kronor today, so...
in five years it will probably be more about how far we've come in the sharing of things people actually care about having.
It's no farther off than that.
Today, a makerspace is generally a place for people who see themselves as makers to meet, and a lab
with practical tools, access to electronics, 3-D printers, laser cutters, the things you may need to create products, plus access to knowledge through other makers
Blockholm is... I really think Blockholm is a fantastic project.
A good example of taking a tool that's out there and easily accessible and which people really like,
but then using it to give people a chance to express something else, maybe enter into a dialogue that wasn't there before
bout how we really want our city to look.
And it is a kind of dialogue we've invited others to participate in who were not involved before.
And it creates this amazing potential for all these ideas that do not necessarily come about in the professional context.