IFTF's public FutureCast phone call with guest hardware hacker Phil Torrone

David Pescovitz 7:00 am Thu Feb 11, 2010

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My Institute for the Future colleagues Kathi Vian and Jerry Michalski are holding their next FutureCast open telephone call today, Thursday, February 11, from 11am – noon (PST). The guest is our pal Philip Torrone, senior editor of MAKE: and creative director of Adafruit Industries. The topic is open source hardware, hacker spaces, and the emerging maker movement. Please call in! The conversation will be recorded and featured as a podcast on the IFTF Future Now blog. To dial-in today, between 11am and noon PST:

Toll Free number: 1-800-868-1837
International number: 1-404-920-6440
Participant code: 548723#

FutureCast: open-source hardware and MAKE-ing the future

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