Where open source was about sharing information by way of the internet, what is happening now, Mr Benkler notes, is the sharing of the tangible tools of technology themselves, like computing power and bandwidth.
"The objective is that you all leave here with tangible tools to grow your business," Mr. Goodman told the entrepreneurs, among them an accountant, a dentist and a pub owner.
The prototype supports audio recording with standard sheets of paper by using tangible tools that can be shared between the therapist and the child.
Many discover space, light and ocular perception as tangible tools of the artist.
The addition of two non-utensil based tangible interaction tools within the kitchen, a green and red tool, was driven by the desire to offer user control over the cooking process and soliciting help.
But the satisfactions of the business are less tangible than tools and temperatures.
It was as if the authorities had dispensed with such abstract representations of justice because the real thing — the tangible, functional tools of state control — were so obvious.
It seems like the only tangible learning tools left are textbooks, and while these are still an inherent part of the learning process, in the internet age, academic tomes are reliable but not easy to update.
Buy tangibles, hardware, tools, ammunition (make your own bullets), grain mills, fish hooks/line... Learn valuable skills: Medical, animal/plant farming, sewing, cooking, auto repair, shooting/hunting, trapping, fishing, curing meat, defensive skills, power and heat generation (solar...).
Based on the case studies conducted with this setup, we show that synchronous collaboration for rapid prototyping could be achieved with lean setups, provide a list of design recommendations for such systems that we derive from our case study observations and existing literature, and finally contribute to the community with an open source tangible tabletop installation tool kit.
