Goodbye Radio Towers – Hello Drones

Although major retailers, like Amazon and Wal-Mart, have extensive drone offerings, the uptake of this new technology into amateur radio has been somewhat slow.  The objective of this article is to review some of the basics, perhaps overcome some ham radio community reluctance to drone adoption and do some “blue skying” for what’s a very cool technology. Ham radio towers could be a thing of the past… Drones to Take Towers – The Basics The …

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Save the Planet with 3D Printing!

Stop Global Collapse! The Answer is Distributed Manufacturing.   Done on low-cost 3D printers. CHINA IS GOING OFF-LINE, too!  Turn off your long supply lines.  Lower the cost of goods to consumers.  Get people designing and innovating again. “How?” With Ultra-Make. We’re a new business model:  We champion “emailable” products.  Things the new Maker Class of Designers and next-gen Manupreneurs can sell to customers online for local printing at the end use location. No factory …

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Business Model of the Future

This is NOT going to become a full-time job for me. In fact, this site was built purely to show my Peoplenomics.com subscribers a different take on the future that arose from my book “The 100-Year Toaster.” The book, serialized over several months, was the beginnings of a “manifesto” – wherein the most dangerous economic problem of ALL was revealed. That Problem? This (way of living on the Earth) cannot persist. Something’s going to get …

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