Neil Gershenfeld
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first heard May 2023
last heard May 2023
Neil Gershenfeld’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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a bubble can go through one way or a bubble can go through the other way.
But if two bubbles come together, then they push on each other and one goes one way and one goes the other way.
That's a logic operation.
That's a logic gate.
So we now have a switch, we have a memory, and we have a logic gate, and that's everything you need to make a universal computer.
Well, so I mean, to stay with that example, what we proposed to do was to make a fluidic ribosome and the project crashed and burned.
It was a disaster.
This is what came out of it.
And so it was precisely ready, fire, aim, in that we had to do a lot of homework to be able to make these microfluidic systems.
the fire part was we didn't think too hard about making the ribosome.
We just tried to do it.
The aim part was we realized the ribosome failed, but something better had happened.
And if you look all across research funding, research management, it doesn't anticipate this.
So fail fast is familiar, but fail fast tends to miss
ready and aim.
You can't just fail.
You have to do your homework before the fail part, and you have to do the aim part after the fail part.
And so the whole language of research is about like milestones and deliverables.
That works when you're going down a straight line, but it doesn't work for this kind of discovery.
And to leap to something you said that's really important is I view part of what the Fab Lab Network is doing is giving more people the opportunity to fail.
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