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'FabLabs' Help Communities Design Their Own Solutions (1/2)
Imagine a world without manufacturers. Or at least not as we now think of them. Instead, we as individuals control the technology to design and make most anything we want.
That world exists now in the mind of Neil Gershenfeld. Professor Gershenfeld is a computer scientist and physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He directs the Center for Bits and Atoms at M.I.T. The center is exploring the relationship between computer science and physical science. The work is receiving financial support from the National Science Foundation.
Neil Gershenfeld wants to help developing countries create technological tools to solve their own problems. He says this is one way to bring the results of the digital revolution to the developing world. And many of those solutions might come out of personal fabrication laboratories -- or "FabLabs." So far the center has set up about 15 of these laboratories around the world.
Each FabLab comes equipped with about 20000 dollars worth of electronics, design tools and computers. The labs are all similar but they are put to use in very different ways.
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