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Imagine that it's 1925 and I am a clever, experienced mechanical engineer. I look around at the "tech" world of the time and notice some disturbing things: - the rising power of literally fascist CEOs like Henry Ford - What began as an inefficient, quirky novelty toy for rich people, the automobile, has become "normal" and started to dominate public space - rising levels of fossil pollution - the rising monopoly power of Oil companies - dangerous levels of stock-market speculation - brutal exploitation of people and environmental destruction in mining and rubber producing (mostly colonial) regions - the use of debt to get less wealthy consumers to buy cars - scores of innocent pedestrians injured or killed by automobiles - urban planning that increasingly favors more expensive cars over other users of the streets - declining sense of importance of shared forms of transportation like trolleys and trainsAs an engineer, I look at all those rising issues and then I say:"What we need is an Open Source Model-T Ford with some slightly better safety features."In retrospect, that would seem like a pretty inadequate response.