I wonder if the real end of open source is energy research. To be able to create without worrying too much you need physical security. Food, heat, water. Which is indirect result of energy access.
Bucky Fuller calculated that we would have the technology to provide a decent standard of living for everyone on Earth by sometime in the 1970's. We just have to deploy it efficiently. And there's the rub.
Put another way, all our problems now are psychological.
That's also part of my understanding. We live in a bubble that makes most of us think we have to do some things and do them in "that" way. Think food or transportation. For 20 years people busted me to have a driving licence. Western cities were so much about having a car .. it became an absolute.
In a way the first factor going against Fuller is consumerist capitalism. Markets aren't made for people to have enough but for companies to survive and get fat.
You probably know this, one of his books is titled "Grunch of Giants: Gross Universe Cash Heist".
He had a plan, "Design science revolution", to produce artifacts for consumers that embodied the changes needed.
The concept of the "trimtab" informed his methods.
> Trim tabs are small surfaces connected to the trailing edge of a larger control surface on a boat or aircraft, used to control the trim of the controls, i.e. to counteract hydro- or aerodynamic forces and stabilize the boat or aircraft in a particular desired attitude without the need for the operator to constantly apply a control force. This is done by adjusting the angle of the tab relative to the larger surface.
