Making Things Technical: Samuelson at MIT

Making Things Happen

We explore some logics of change, focusing on commands to change the world in such a way that certain elementary propositions become true or false. This investigation starts out from the following two simplifying assumptions: (1) the world is a collection of facts (Wittgenstein), and (2), the world can be changed by changing elementary facts (Marx). These assumptions allow us to study the logic...

Securely Making "Things" Right

The Internet is already half a century old, but the fear of an incident that will cripple the Web and render its applications unusable is as real as it was in 1988 when the Morris worm—the first of its kind—appeared. Admittedly, the Internet’s architects didn’t anticipate its use for malicious acts. Actually, most of the early design efforts focused on overcoming the technical hurdles of creati...

From Hacking Things to Making Things. Rethinking making by supporting non-expert users in a FabLab

When discussing maker culture, much attention is dedicated to how making can be beneficial for specific fields (e.g. healthcare, education) or various communities of makers (e.g. educators, crafters). The democratic ideal of personal fabrication and the maker culture movement represented by the growth of open makerspaces (e.g. FabLabs, makerspaces) and online communities (e.g. ‘Instructables’, ...

The Internet of Things (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series)

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