Neil Gershenfeld

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A digital description becomes the thing.

That's the path to the Star Trek replicator.

And that's the thing that doesn't exist yet.

Now, I think the best way to understand what this roadmap looks like is to now bring in Fab Labs and how they relate to all of this.

What are Fab Labs?

So here's a sequence.

With colleagues, I accidentally started a network of

of what's now 2,500 digital fabrication community labs called fab labs right now in 125 countries.

And they double every year and a half.

That's called Lasse's Law after Sherry Lassiter, who I'll explain.

So here's the sequence.

We started Center for Bits and Atoms to do the kind of research we're talking about.

We had all of these machines and then had a problem.

It would take a lifetime of classes to learn to use all the machines.

So with...

you know, colleagues who helped start CBA, we began a class modestly called How to Make Almost Anything.

And there was no big agenda.

It was just, it was aimed at a few research students to use the machines.

And we were completely unprepared for the first time we taught it.

We were swamped by, every year since, hundreds of students try to take the class.

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