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Neil Gershenfeld Quotes

«By personal fabrication, what I mean is ordinary people creating, rather than consuming technology, creating technology to solve local problems.»
«The research is aiming to make a molecular assembler, one machine that can build, on a molecular scale, anything.»
«In a way, the Fab Labs are havens for inventive outliers in society.»
«art became separated from artisans and mass manufacturing turned individuals from creators to consumers.»
«In a few seconds, you can transform a two-dimensional sheet of acrylic into a three-dimensional object.»
«What we are interested in is merging the computer with the clothing so that all you need to do is get dressed.»
«For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork.»
«If you give people access to means to solve their own problems, it touches something very, very deep,»
«In a sense, this is like open-source software, but for hardware.»
«Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.»