Fab

I just started reading Neil Gershenfeld's new book "Fab," which lays out the future of machines that make machines (think of a printer that can print "things" rather than images). I loved this line from the intro:


Like the earlier transition from mainframes to PCs, the capabilities of machine tools will become accessible to ordinary people in the form of personal fabricators (PFs). This time around, though, the implications are likely to be even greater because what's being personalized is our physcial world of atoms rather than the computer's digital world of bits.

I hope to post more about the book in coming days...

ps: In case you weren't aware, many of the titles of my blogs are hyperlinked to articles, Amazon.com, etc. :)