November 09, 2006

Yksinäinen ostaja

Metalosis Maligna - Lyhytmokumentti Tetsuo-taudista, ohjaus Floris Kaayk. (myös YouTubessa)

Ray Kurzweilin kolmituntinen C-SPAN2 Book TV haastatteluvideo (.rm). Muissa videomuodoissa kai myöhemmin.

A factory of one's own
Today there are 15 labs around the globe, from Ghana, where an 8-year-old girl made a working circuit board, to Norway, where a 14-year-old boy crafted a robot car. "The killer app for personal fabrication in the developed world is technology for a market of one. For the rest of the planet, it's about people developing solutions to local problems," Gershenfeld says. -- The road from a Fab Lab to a personal fabricator in your living room faces two large hurdles: technology and finance. Gershenfeld is unconcerned about the former. He can see the technological roadmap; we should be there in 20 years, he says. The bigger problem is funding, which is why he's scouting for visionaries in venture capital and microfinance who see the potential. No one has jumped aboard yet, but there is a budding interest.

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