Renaissance Period:

• New paints and pigments
• New business paradigm, Contracting with individuals instead of Church

Today:

• Computers, Electronics, Smart Phones
• New Business Paradigm, Open Source Products
• Hackerspaces, Makerspaces, & Fab Labs

Open Source Businesses:

• Arduino
• Adaruit Industries
• SparkFun Electronics
• SeeedStudios
  • Local Inventor Offering Products Rob Giseburt
• MakerBot
  • Las Vegas, CES Best of Show
  • Grew out of NYC Resistor Hackerspace
  • Investment in Open Source Business
• KickStarter - New investing sources

Maker Movement is World Wide

• China Investing in Hackerspaces
• Citizen Scientists, Citizen Engineers, Citizen Educations, Biologists, Astronomers ...
• BioCurious Hackerspace