- Live-streamed French transhumanism debate: “Futur transhumaniste – paradis ou enfer?” was broadcast from La Cantine (Paris) on 22 Jan 2012; Sandberg spoke specifically on risk assessment and mitigation strategies for emerging technologies.  
- Open-Source Ecology’s Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) was highlighted as a 50-machine “civilization starter kit” (tractor, induction furnace, 3-D printer, etc.) designed to be built with present-day, low-cost, open hardware.  
- Participants discussed the concept of a 15 GB “stone-age-to-modernity” knowledge archive that would contain all essential instructions for rebooting technological civilization.  
- Interest in open-source biomedical hardware surfaced: delinquentme linked a PubMed paper on tissue-engineered hearts and asked about an open-source skin bioreactor; kanzure noted that Jordan Miller (jmil) has unpublished RepRap modifications for cell/tissue printing that the community is waiting to see released.  
- Printing techniques debated: inkjet-style actuation (thermal or piezo), electrohydrodynamic (EHD) jetting, and stereolithography (SLA) were all mentioned as candidate methods for depositing cell-laden or protein-scaffold bio-inks.