Dale Dougherty here giving an awesome talk on makers and their place in America (Hackerspaces included)
http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf
America was built by makers — curious, enthusiastic amateur inventors whose tinkering habit sparked whole new industries. At TED@MotorCity, MAKE magazine publisher Dale Dougherty says we’re all makers at heart, and shows cool new tools to tinker with, like Arduinos, affordable 3D printers, even DIY satellites.
