The
Rational Argumentator
The Beckoning Promise of Personal Fabrication -- Video
Neil Gershenfeld is a professor at MIT, famous for his Fab Lab – of which there are now incarnations throughout the world, including in Ghana, India, and Norway. In this speech given at a TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference, Dr. Gershenfeld explains that personal fabrication is already within reach today and can empower seemingly ordinary people all over the world to unleash and exercise their creativity. The new paradigm of personal fabrication will enable people to customize their lives not just by picking items they want from stores (as occurs today), but also by making the items that would improve their lives – in effect creating markets of one person for custom-made goods. Many of the Fab Labs cost less than $20,000 to create. Dr. Gershenfeld mentions a Ghanaian 8-year-old girl who created a product which would take multiple specialists in advanced countries to develop.
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