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Maker Faire Detroit 2010
Detroit 2.0
- Detroit 2.0
Anderson Theater Saturday 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
What if Detroit's capacity of factory spaces, automobile proving grounds, specialized manufacturing equipment and enormous intellectual concentration could get re-purposed and re-wired and be made available to auto "makers" not just the Big-3 or the Big-6, but the "Small Millions?" Then the millions of us small or individual "auto makers," inventors & doers, would have physical or virtual access to boundless tools, garages, talent, teachers -- when and where they were needed. Detroit could become the desired destination of hobbyists, entrepreneurs and businesses big and small. Detroit 2.0, through another lens, is the next big app of social-networks, only this time these would be cyber-physical social-networks. The individual auto makers, the small millions, could be anywhere, developing prototypes using computer-aided-design tools and their socially networked friends could be in Detroit. They could complete physical prototype builds, test them out in physical proving grounds before virtually shipping re-designed parts to a distributed Detroit 2.0 cyber-physical lab. Exciting mash-ups of data and human intelligence could yield the as yet unseen --- high precision machines for everything, Green-X, Bio-X & Transportation-X to name just a few.
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About the Maker(s)
K. Venkatesh Prasad
As the group and technical leader of Ford’s Infotronics Research & Advanced Engineering team, K. Venkatesh Prasad is responsible for the research, architecture, standards, applications development and vehicle system integration of electrical, electronics and embedded software technologies. Prasad grew up in Chennai, India
