Virtual Intentional Communities?
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2023 1:38 am
This started as a sort of laugh, thinking about hippie communes but technologically empowered and separated around the country or world. But the more it rattles around my brain, the more it seems possible.
people with access or production or resources or raw materials sending them to each other who then hand make stuff for the community members, owning shares in farm animals, having a vertical farm plot in a massive multi plot vertical farm warehouse facility.
with cad and 3d printers people could send objects over a network, and repair and replace things for members of the community from a distance.
community meetings held via video meeting software.
I mean it's crazy, and it would have many of the same issues that intentional communities have, but frankly it doesn't feel as impossible as it really should.
but then I don't know enough about communes to say whether I'm missing something.
people with access or production or resources or raw materials sending them to each other who then hand make stuff for the community members, owning shares in farm animals, having a vertical farm plot in a massive multi plot vertical farm warehouse facility.
with cad and 3d printers people could send objects over a network, and repair and replace things for members of the community from a distance.
community meetings held via video meeting software.
I mean it's crazy, and it would have many of the same issues that intentional communities have, but frankly it doesn't feel as impossible as it really should.
but then I don't know enough about communes to say whether I'm missing something.