Photograph by Dave Bullock
What’s in Your Garage?
We’re betting on solutions to big problems coming from innovative makers working in their basements, garages, and workshops.
In an October 2008 presidential debate, moderator Tom Brokaw asked whether serious challenges such as climate change could be met by big Manhattan-style projects like the one that developed the atom bomb, or by people working in 100,000 garages, which is how Silicon Valley started.
Both candidates wandered off topic, but I really wanted them to answer the question. As a matter of national policy, do we think change will come from ideas developed by the “best ...
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