Enterprise Models to Change the World

These are the companion notes for my presentation to London Zeitgeist Day 2019, “A Transitionary Enterprise” later today, which is a follow-up to my presentation last year.

This will cover a brief update on my previous talk, look at some practical models for systems that we can build now to meet our basic needs sustainably, then at the kind of social/organisational and financial models that can serve as a stable structure to such projects.

The general idea being to find some paths for positive action in a global situation that currently looks extremely bleak, so more focus on the ‘good news’ than last year.

Evolution of 3D Printing

3D printing, that amazing technology that has recently grasped the media's attention, evoking comparisons to Star Trek's 'replicator' that could assemble any known object out of its basic molecules. Behind all the hype, what can it do, and will it really change our world?