Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “What Is a Maker?”.
Making is so basic and fundamental to who we are that all of us are makers. It’S not just some special group who went to the right school. It is something that’s in all of us and it’s something that’s very broadly available in our culture. Anything that you need to make it’s important that you make it humans do two things that make us unique from all other animals. We use tools and we tell stories and when you make something you’re doing both at once. Today’S diy is tomorrow’s made in america. Your projects are examples of a revolution: that’s taking place in american manufacturing, a revolution that can help us create new jobs and industries for decades to come.
Makers are a source of innovation. I think it relates back to something like the birth of the personal computer energy. This is steve wozniak. Where does he learn about computers? It’S a homebrew computer club, just like a hackerspace, and he says you know i could go there all day long and talk to people and share ideas for free you’re, telling a story about your desire. You’Re telling a story about something that you want you’re telling story about something that you see needs to be made, and you are using your tools to improve yourself and prove the world around you. If you can imagine it, then you can do it whatever it is.
This is a country that imagined a railroad connecting a continent imagined electricity powering our cities and towns, imagine skyscrapers reaching into the heavens and an internet that brings us closer together. So we imagine these things, then we did them and that’s in our dna. That’S who we are .