When I told my maker friend about my improving autonomy blog, they mentioned that they had been thinking about a “Cybernetic Farm” . That is growing food with just 2 people using high technology.
So I think hack/makerspaces are another place to find the confluence of engineering and hippies. Tools and expertise are shared, in the best examples. Getting things done is valued as is technical expertise. It is less about the social experimentation than burning man. See also the open source ecology movement.
I’d be interested to learn about more places as well.
In his book about modern transhumanist subcultures, To Be a Machine, the author Mark O’Connell describes a self-experimenting collective of biohackers incorporated under the name Grindhouse Wetware (the members, and the associated movement, are known as Grinders). They seemed to have a similar aesthetic.
Some more places to look and understand:
When I told my maker friend about my improving autonomy blog, they mentioned that they had been thinking about a “Cybernetic Farm” . That is growing food with just 2 people using high technology.
So I think hack/makerspaces are another place to find the confluence of engineering and hippies. Tools and expertise are shared, in the best examples. Getting things done is valued as is technical expertise. It is less about the social experimentation than burning man. See also the open source ecology movement.
I’d be interested to learn about more places as well.
In his book about modern transhumanist subcultures, To Be a Machine, the author Mark O’Connell describes a self-experimenting collective of biohackers incorporated under the name Grindhouse Wetware (the members, and the associated movement, are known as Grinders). They seemed to have a similar aesthetic.