Neil Gershenfeld
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1,202 appearances
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first heard May 2023
last heard May 2023
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3D printing additive and there's a couple claims to the invention of 3D printing that's closer to what's called net shape which is you don't have to cut away the material you don't need you just put material where you do need it and so that's the 3D printing revolution but
there are all sorts of limitations on 3D printing to the kinds of materials you can print, the kind of functionality you can print.
We're just not gonna get to making everything in a cell phone on a single printer, but I do expect to make everything in a cell phone with an assembler.
And so instead of printing and cutting technologically, it's this transition to assembling and disassembling.
Going back to Shannon and von Neumann, going back to the ribosome four billion years ago.
Now, you come to malevolent.
Let me tell you a story about, I was doing a briefing for the National Academy of Sciences group that advises the intelligence communities.
And I talked about the kind of research we do.
And at the very end, I showed a little video clip of Valentina in Ghana, a local girl making surface mount electronics in the Fab Lab.
And I showed that to this room full of people.
One of the members of the intelligence community got up livid and said, how dare you waste our time showing us a young girl in an African village making service mount electronics.
We're looking at, we need to know about disruptive threats to the future of the United States.
And somebody else got up in the room and yelled at him and you idiot, I can't think of anything more important than this.
But for two reasons.
One reason was,
because if we rely on informational superiority in the battlefield, it means other people could get access to it.
But this intelligence person's point, bless him, wasn't that.
It was...
getting at the root causes of conflict is if this young girl in an African village could actually master surface mount electronics, it changes some of the most fundamental things about recruitment for terrorism, impact of economic migration, basic assumptions about an economy.
It's just existential for the future of the planet.
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