Technology Education Instead of Technology Secrecy
November 15, 2021
Humanity can accelerate invention by teaching the machinery of civilization directly. Kilns, scanning tunneling microscopes, physical vapor deposition, circuit design, fabrication, and material transformation should become structured, accessible technical education.
Brian Greenforest replaces a culture of fragmented access with a global invitation to learn how things work and make new things possible.
Teach the Complete Physical Stack
A learner should move from materials and heat through surfaces, deposition, patterning, measurement, circuits, control, and products. Each layer gives the next one meaning.
Open curricula can join textbooks, laboratories, equipment plans, process recipes, simulations, and local mentorship. Communities gain the ability to reproduce tools and adapt them to local needs.
Turn Access Into a Species-Level Advantage
Patents, proprietary secrets, industrial espionage, and narrow controlled access consume immense energy. Education channels that energy into more researchers, engineers, builders, and inventions.
Universities, manufacturers, makerspaces, and experienced technologists can publish one complete learning path at a time. Teach the process, build the equipment, and let the next generation extend it.
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Intellectual property, technological supremacy, patents, lawyers, proprietary secrets, cybersecurity, walls and warfare, industrial espionage, controlled access to small chunks of information...
Why don't we focus on structured education on technology, and teach everyone on the planet how kiln works, how to build your own scanning tunnel microscope, how to do physical vapor deposition, how to design and make objects?..
There is so much work to be researched! So many technologies to be invented!
Open access and open world will accelerate our technological development as species.
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