I met this respondent a few years ago when we were both participating in Maker Faire. His background is, as he will tell you himself, unconventional and varied. He is an artist and an educator and at present is engaged in an endeavour that builds community, educates, and empowers through the building and celebration of art cars. I asked him to participate because in several of our conversations, it was clear that he had a perspective on this subject that is worldly, wise, well-articulated, and simultaneously tinged with shades of jadedness and tentative optimism, the latter two of which we may all be able to relate to. Without further ado and enjoy…