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 as simple as there's no trash in a Lego room.

When you assemble Lego, the Lego bricks have enough information to disassemble them.

So as you go through this Fab 1234 story, one of the implications of this transition from printing to assembling.

So the real breakthrough technologically isn't additive versus subtractive, which is a subject of a lot of discussion.

attention and hype.

3D printers are useful.

We spun off companies like Formlabs, led by Max for 3D printing.

But in a Fab Lab, it's one of maybe 10 machines.

It's used, but it's only part of the machines.

The real technological change is when we go from printing and cutting to assembling and disassembling.

But that reduces...

inventories of hundreds of thousands of parts to just having a few parts to make almost anything.

It reduces global supply chains to locally sourcing these building blocks.

But one of the key implications is it gets rid of technological trash.

because you can disassemble and reuse the parts, not throw them away.

And so initially that's of interest for things at the end of long supply chains, like satellites on orbit.

But one of the things coming is eliminating technical trash through reuse of the building blocks.

So the 1952 NC mill was subtractive.

You remove material.

And...

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