Previous Examples of Ingenuity

North America was settled by homesteaders, so what this is all about is to demonstrate the obvious: Canadians have lost so much, that simply learning how to garden again is seen by neighbours to be a major feat!

Pretty scary since during WWII Victory Gardens were one of the strategies that folks used to survive and contribute to the war effort.

People will do whatever they need to do to survive and in a time of scarcity, we will come up with some pretty ingenious ways to survive.

Thomas Homer-Dixon's Ingenuity Gap was my first introduction to the danger that our need-it-now-information-is-cheap society faces because we have become so reliant on increasingly complex solutions that there are fewer and fewer people alive that actually have any that one of the greatest inventions ever called the Internet has enabled us to not actually have to know anything to get by.

The recent rise of the hacker spaces have me encouraged. I am also encouraged by the stories of the old timers that have step out of the comfortable and have attempted something new and in the process have helped get us to where we are.

Where that is will be an essay in itself.