why lowered barriers to participation are so cool

Seen the leak about the crunchpad For those who haven’t been following this, Michael Arrington of Techcrunch fame posted about a tech idea. He wanted help to build a small, light, touchscreen pad for browsing the web. 6 months later, they had a prototype Yesterday, what looks like a final prototype leaked It’s cute and I can imagine many tech geeks wanting one. Sure, Michael has some unique advantages here, but this is hardware engineering done almost as quickly as a software project. Yes, that sound you hear is the world changing, again.