I test drove the first-generation Tesla Roadster. I once lived on Soylent powder shakes for a month. My Twitter account is almost old enough to drive. I wrote a book about the iPhone.

Also, I’m a Luddite. That’s not the contradiction that it might sound like. The original Luddites did not hate technology. Most were skilled machine operators. In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, what they objected to were the specific ways that tech was being used to undermine their status, upend their communities and destroy their livelihoods. So they took sledgehammers to the mechanized looms used to exploit them.

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    1 year ago

    There’s no reason we couldn’t have an Amazon-like app that buys from the stores around us.

    Or services like door dash/Uber/etc that are managed inside the community with tools shared with other communities.

    It is an idea that would pair well with locally managed fiber (municipal or local business), and community clouds.

    I’m starting with makerspaces, but I could see it operating without them too.