Neil Gershenfeld

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1,202 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2023 last heard May 2023

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It's so far north the satellite dishes look at the ground, not the sky.

Hans Christian in the lab was considered a problem in the local school because they couldn't teach him anything.

I showed him a few projects.

Next time I came back, he was designing and building little robot vehicles.

And in South Africa,

I mentioned Sochangove.

In this apartheid township, the local technical institute taught kids how to make bricks and fold sheets.

It was punitive.

But Tepiso in the Fab Lab was actually doing all the work of my MIT classes.

And so over and over, we found precisely the same kind of bright inventive creativity.

And historically, the answer was...

You're smart, go away.

It's sort of like me in vocational school.

But in this lab network, what we could then do is, in effect, bring the world to them.

Now let's look at the scaling of all of this.

So there's one Earth, a thousand cities, a million towns, a billion people, a trillion things.

There was one whirlwind computer.

MIT made the first real-time computer.

There were thousands of PDPs.

There were millions of hobbyist computers that came from that, billions of personal computers, trillions of Internet of Things.

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