13 ordspråk av Neil Gershenfeld
Neil Gershenfeld
A Web browser for parrots isn't meant to serve a scalable business market,
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A Web browser for parrots isn't meant to serve a scalable business market.
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art became separated from artisans and mass manufacturing turned individuals from creators to consumers.
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By not lobbing a few extra cannon shells, he could afford to make these community investments.
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By personal fabrication, what I mean is ordinary people creating, rather than consuming technology, creating technology to solve local problems.
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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.
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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.
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If you give people access to means to solve their own problems, it touches something very, very deep,
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In a few seconds, you can transform a two-dimensional sheet of acrylic into a three-dimensional object.
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In a sense, this is like open-source software, but for hardware.
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In a way, the Fab Labs are havens for inventive outliers in society.
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The research is aiming to make a molecular assembler, one machine that can build, on a molecular scale, anything.
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What we are interested in is merging the computer with the clothing so that all you need to do is get dressed.
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