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“The Global Village Construction Set is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.”
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This project is a bit "yikes" at this point, IMO. Lots of flashy TED talks and media coverage when it started (ten or more years ago?)... not much output, and the leadership/team dynamics sound pretty dysfunctional. Interesting concept, though, and they did design and build some stuff.
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