Open source, open hardware, commons-based peer production, right-to-repair, circular design, platform cooperativism, microfactories, distributed energy, local-first software, mutual aid, and AI together point toward cosmolocal production: globally shared knowledge, locally governed infrastructure, and regionally resilient manufacturing.
AI is not the center of this story. AI is an accelerant. The center is the commons plus institutions. Without ownership, governance, repair rights, energy, land, standards, and financing, AI just helps centralized firms move faster.
The future of production isn’t “everything made in China” or “everything made at home.”
It’s cosmolocal:
Design global. Manufacture local. Share the knowledge. Adapt to local needs. Repair what breaks. Improve it. Send it back to the commons.
Atoms local. Knowledge global.
@IntuitMachine You are targeting the people that would use OnemanBSD. It is self-containing OS that has ALL sources included inside the OS so it can rebuild itself on the very same machine. That is what real independence look like in software. Here is a link: http://bialamusic.com/onemanBSD/
Open source, open hardware, commons-based peer production, right-to-repair, circular design, platform cooperativism, microfactories, distributed energy, local-first software, mutual aid, and AI together point toward cosmolocal production: globally shared knowledge, locally governed infrastructure, and regionally resilient manufacturing.