Neil Gershenfeld

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The whole computing industry was there, and it all failed when computing became personal.

Ken Olson, the head of digital, famously said, you don't need a computer at home.

There's a little background to that, but DEC completely missed computing became personal.

So I mention all of that because

I was asking how to do digital fabrication, but not really why.

The students in this how to make class were showing me that the killer app of digital fabrication is personal fabrication.

So Kelly didn't make the screen body because it was for a thesis.

She wasn't writing a research paper.

It wasn't a business model.

It was because she wanted one.

It was personal expression, going back to me in vocational school, it was personal expression in these new means of expression.

So that's happened every year since.

And it's grown to multiple labs worldwide.

at MIT with as many people involved in teaching as taking it.

And there's even a Harvard lab for the MIT class.

I mentioned Marvin.

Another mentor at MIT, sadly no longer living, is Seymour Papert.

So Papert studied with Piaget.

He came to MIT to get access to the early... Piaget was a pioneer in how kids learn.

Papert came to MIT to get access to the early...

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