From Personal Computing to Personal Fabrication
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2025 3:06 am
The first keynote of the day will be given by Prof Neil Gershenfeld, the director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. He is the initiator of the growing global network of Fab Labs and heads the Fab Academy, its program for disseminating research and education in the principles and uses of digital fabrication.
The fablabs are based on his belief about how people will live, learn and work in the future georgia phone number list in a society where everyone can make everything everywhere. The Fab Lab offers people from all over the world the opportunity to share and implement their own ideas and/or solutions to problems. For example, groups of people in Barcelona are manufacturing a solar house and in the fablab in Afghanistan wireless networks have emerged from the manufacturing of waste. The Fab labs are centers where things become reality that are really needed. It is the consumers who make end products.
According to Neil, the development of the Fab labs fits in perfectly with the development of the production market. Now that we have digital communication, digital production will also arise. In short, this means that material will become available that is programmable. You make a design of something you want to make and that material will change into what you wanted. The result of this is that you will never have waste again. Material is not only functional but also reusable. In addition, production will become available to everyone.
According to Neil, there will be a major shift in the way products are manufactured. With his Fab labs, knowledge & research from MIT and the help of all those consumers, this will happen faster than you think.
The fablabs are based on his belief about how people will live, learn and work in the future georgia phone number list in a society where everyone can make everything everywhere. The Fab Lab offers people from all over the world the opportunity to share and implement their own ideas and/or solutions to problems. For example, groups of people in Barcelona are manufacturing a solar house and in the fablab in Afghanistan wireless networks have emerged from the manufacturing of waste. The Fab labs are centers where things become reality that are really needed. It is the consumers who make end products.
According to Neil, the development of the Fab labs fits in perfectly with the development of the production market. Now that we have digital communication, digital production will also arise. In short, this means that material will become available that is programmable. You make a design of something you want to make and that material will change into what you wanted. The result of this is that you will never have waste again. Material is not only functional but also reusable. In addition, production will become available to everyone.
According to Neil, there will be a major shift in the way products are manufactured. With his Fab labs, knowledge & research from MIT and the help of all those consumers, this will happen faster than you think.