Spencer Ackerman at Wired News reports on a project led by Iraqi-American Bilal Ghalib, 27, "who’s trying to create the country’s first hackerspace" and believes it’ll take “irrational optimism” for Iraqis to remember "they were among the planet’s first maker cultures."

  • Henry Pootel

    Ironically, there was a very thriving maker/hacker mentality when it came  to making IEDs.  There was some pretty innovative “make do with what you’ve got” work going on there.

    • http://www.openbuddha.com/ Al Billings

       Cheap shot is cheap. Thanks for stepping up to the topic, Mitt.