Meet the man building a starter kit for civilization

Meet the man building a starter kit for civilization

Marcin Jakubowski is compiling a DIY set of society's essential machines and making it open-source.

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You live in a house you designed and built yourself. You rely on the sun for power, heat your home with a woodstove, and farm your own fish and vegetables. The year is 2025.  This is the life of Marcin Jakubowski, the 53-year-old founder of Open Source Ecology, an open collaborative of engineers, producers, and builders developing what they call the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). It’s a set of 50 machines—everything from a tractor to an…