This document discusses the open hardware and maker movements and how they are democratizing production. It highlights several key projects and organizations including Arduino, RepRap, MakerBot, Fab Labs, and Wikispeed. It also notes the rapid growth of hardware projects on Kickstarter, growing 10x from 2011 to 2013. The document advocates for making, learning, and sharing through global networks of makerspaces, hackerspaces, and fablabs to build local infrastructure for innovation.