This is what I’ll be able to say to my grandchildren.
It will not simply be idle yarns spun by a crotchety miser; the history books will confirm it. Brooklynites will define this century!
Don’t believe me? You dare doubt the collective power of the Millennial Generation‘s bottom up, Do-it-Yourself Awesomeness.
We are making our food from scratch: Brooklyn’s New Culinary Movement
Mast Brother Chocolate – These guys use old-school bartering with chocolate bars to expand their operations.
McClure’s Pickles – They make one spicy delicious pickled cucumber.
How about a desktop 3D Printer, kinda like a Startrek replicator? Makerbot
Started by the crazy DIY dudes at NYC RESISTOR
Oh your not impressed, you jaded SOB! I outta box your ears, whippersnapper! (ok, so I’m already crotchety) Put this in your pipe and smoke it:
Brooklyn Based Open Source Fusion Project (read: Clean, Cheap, fossil-free Energy, based on the Sun)
That’s right, Big Oil is dead, it’s time to make good on the promised of the Nuclear Age.
Kiss our glowing purple reactor!
Now accepting donations.
It will come to fruition, as long those meddling hipsters don’t mess it up!
I like the idea of growing chocolate and bartering like the old days. The idea that Brooklyn wants to lead the way sounds fine to me. Lots of educated young people around there a movement can work.