Peter Day plunges into the Honey Bee Network and a future where everyone can be an inventor.
Anil Gupta has set up the Honey Bee Network; Neil Gershenfeld has established the Fab Lab project. Together they want a world where rich and poor can get their hands on hi-tech tools to make innovative things: so changing the way the world economy develops.
Anil Gupta is a professor from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. He wants the intellectual property rights of the poor to be acknowledged, respected and rewarded.
Thousand of miles away, in the USA, Neil Gershenfeld works as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He wants an historic prejudice that has elevated the arts over manufacture to be overturned.
Read about the internet search company Autonomy in Peter Day's latest Work in Progress: Another search party
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In Business is all about change. New ways of work and new technologies are challenging most of the assumptions by which organisations have been run for the last 100 years. We try to report on ideas coming over the horizon, just before they start being talked about. We hope it is an exhilarating ride.
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