In the early days of the PC industry, a bunch of obscure tinkerers held a crazy vision that everyone should have a computer and the power to create that comes with it. The maker movement has the same feel, but is after a much more ambitious aim – to give everyone the power to make anything.
ReMade: The Rebirth of the Maker Movement (1st Trailer) from Electromagnate on Vimeo.
To quote someone in the above Kickstarter film project trailer about what the movement means, "you take your world, and you just say, I want it to be like this, and you make it."