Neil Gershenfeld
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first heard May 2023
last heard May 2023
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It's every language, every geography.
But it's the same person in all those packages.
It's the same sense of bright, inventive joy and discovery everywhere.
Yeah, that's a great question.
This is part of a much bigger maker movement that has a lot of embodiments.
The part I've been involved in, this Fab Lab Network, you can think of as a curated part that works as a network.
You don't benefit in a gym if somebody exercises in another gym, but in the Fab Network, you do, in a sense, benefit when somebody works in another lab in the way it functions as a network.
You can come to cba.mit.edu to see the research we're talking about.
There's a Fab Foundation run by Sherry Lassiter at fabfoundation.org.
Fab Labs IO is a portal into this lab network.
Fabacademy.org is this distributed hands-on educational program.
Fab.city is the platform of cities producing what they consume.
Those are all nodes in this network.
Well, and in particular, from one to a thousand, we carefully counted labs.
Now we're going from a thousand to a million where it ceases to become interesting to count them.
And in the thousand to the million, what's interesting about that stage is technologically, you go to a lab not to get access to the machine, but you go to the lab to make the machine.
But the other thing interesting in it is we have an interesting collaboration on a Fab Lab in a box.
And this came out of a collaboration with SolidWorks on how you can put a Fab Lab in a box, which is not just the tools, but the knowledge.
So you open the box and the box contains the knowledge of how to use it as well as the tools within it.
so that the knowledge can propagate.
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