Neil Gershenfeld
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first heard May 2023
last heard May 2023
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computers with the goal of letting kids play with them.
Piaget helped show kids are like scientists.
They learn as scientists and it gets kind of throttled out of them.
Seymour wanted to let kids have a broader landscape to play.
Seymour's work led with Mitch Resnick to Lego, Logo, Mindstorms, all of that stuff.
As Fab Labs spread and we started creating educational programs for kids in them, Seymour said something really interesting.
He made a gesture.
He said, it was a thorn in his side
that they invented what's called the turtle, a robot kids could, early robot kids could program to connect it to a mainframe computer.
Seymour said, the goal was not for the kids to program the robot, it was for the kids to create the robot.
And so in that sense, the Fab Labs, which for me were just this accident, he described as sort of this fulfillment of the arc of kids learn by experimenting.
It was to give them the tools to create, not just assemble things and program things, but actually create.
So coming to your question, what I've learned is that
MIT, a few years back, somebody added up businesses spun off from MIT, and it's the world's 10th economy.
It falls between India and Russia.
And I view that in a way as a bad number because it's only a few thousand people, and these aren't uniquely the 4,000 brightest people.
It's just a productive environment for them.
And what we found is in rural Indian villages, in African shantytowns, in Arctic villages,
Hamlets, I find exactly, precisely that profile.
So Ling Sai did a few hours above Tromso, way above the Arctic circles.
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