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Just in the last few years, we have completely changed the way we create and consume music, movies, books, and news. Another change is coming, and this time it?s not just in the virtual world.

1. The Opportunity of 3D Printing

Matthew Deupner, a 15-year-old hacker, introduces us to the 3D Printer that he built himself. This device takes designs that he found on the internet and makes real, physical objects. Home manufacturing is now a reality. Anyone can make with a simple downloadable file and a thingie-maker like this.

2. A New Situation Found at The Maker Space

Matthew shares his ideas at his local hackerspace, a new kind of community workshop that are popping up all over the world. At HackManhattan, hackers, makers, and DIYers share tools and ideas. Everyday people can make stuff themselves, and by learning from each other they can develop new ideas faster than industry can.

3. The Maker Movement changes everything

Hackerspace members start publishing their ideas and meet at an annual show-and-tell called MakerFaire. MakerFaire (and the surrounding Maker movement) is getting bigger every year, bigger than ever expected. Here we find that some groups are using technology, free information, and collaboration to make a big impact. FarmHack is one group making agriculture more resilient and sustainable. FarmHack members are changing agriculture with electronics, data, and informed techniques; and they are publishing this information publicly.

4. The Speed of Rapid Protoyping

Digital design and rapid manufacturing are exciting new technologies for product designers like Dale Backus, the creator of the SmallHD monitor. Cinematographers everywhere know the SmallHD monitor, a versatile video production tool which Dale and his friends first hacked together in their basement just a few years ago with some factory-leftover laptop displays. Now they use 3D printing to test out their product designs before going into production on their product, and assembly happens here in the USA. This Rapid Prototyping business model enables them to make a product that can compete with industry giants like Sony and Panasonic, who use large overseas factories. Small businesses of all kinds can benefit from this combination of tools and strategy.

5. The Strength of Crowdsourcing

Group collaboration is now possible on a global scale. By connecting online, people can pool their resources in a way that was once only feasible for corporations and governments. (Better Block Project scene)

6. The Resilience of Open Source Information

Learn and share just about anything online. This environment helps ideas develop faster than old business models. Collaboration, participation, and community can improve all aspects of our lives, according to OpenSource.com ?s manager, Jason Hibbets. His vision for an Open-Source City is being tested out in the streets of Raleigh, where citizens are hacking public policy to work for them.

7. The Complication of Intellectual Property

Not all ideas are free. Copyright and Patents are a legal barrier to the free exchange of ideas. In the age where bits can become atoms, where is the line between free speech and intellectual property? (Public Knowledge scene)

8. The Challenge of Tactical Urbanism

The rules are broken everywhere. Using the open source approach and guerrilla tactics, citizens are taking it upon themselves to change their cities. Civic improvement is the of goal the Food Is Free project, a community activist group. Involved citizens grow edible plants in front yards and public spaces everywhere, but are their unsanctioned projects a benefit or a nuisance?

9. 3D Printed Guns bring higher stakes

Some free ideas are dangerous. Guns are now accessible to anyone with a 3D printer. What could develop next? (Cody Wilson scene)

10. The Push for Maker Education

In San Diego, the founders of FabLab SD are using technology for a cause. With a grant from MIT, they are showing children how to use these emerging technologies, and teaching stewardship for using them responsibly. The kids get it. The great challenges of our time just might be solved by a generation of native makers who think differently about design, consumption, and collaboration.

11. Customization for everyone

A new economy is approaching. This bazaar for products will be tailored to your specific needs, not mass-produced in a foreign factory. (TechShop scene)

12. The Coming Industrial Revolution

Now is the time to be excited. We are creating a new economy, a new sense of democracy, and a new freedom brought by a mastery of technology once only dreamed of in science fiction.

1 - Food Is Free Project - farm work day

2 - ATX Hackerspace Boat Day

3 - ATX Hackerspace open house

4 - ATX Hackerspace Interview Marshall

5 - ATX Hackerspace Interview Martin

6 - Jason Hibbets at Red Hat HQ

7 - Better Block Project Duncan, South Carolina

8 - Better Block Project Duncan, SC timelapse

9 - Raleigh, North Carolina scenery

10 - Mighty Mountain concert

11 - Food Is Free Project guerrilla gardening bike ride

12 - ATX Hackerspace build-out