Scientist’s Thoughts on the Future
Written by Josh on October 20, 2008 – 4:34 am -It has been said by a famous personality like Neil Gershenfeld who is a physicist as well as computer scientist and is the in charge of the laboratory of Bit and Atom located at MIT that in future a day will come when we won’t need any manufacturers to produce our goods. According to him we can manufacture a toaster by just downloading the description of it in to the computers and by just supplying the design and also the raw materials inside a private fabricator we will get the toaster which we design ourselves today. Gershenfeld’s book Fab: Personal Fabrication says that in future fabrication laboratories will be just like Personal Computer and will be the technology that all people will have.
All these words from him might just be sounding like an imaginary tale but the truth is that the sample version of manufacturing center called as “fabrication laboratories” are already being established and is running in countries like India, Ghana, Costa Rica, Norway and in southern end of Boston. Apart from these there are some other big countries that are also showing curiosity in opening laboratories of such kind.
For the first time, few days back a big population of the laboratories worker from all over the globe decided to meet at MIT and also at South End Expertise situated at Columbus Avenue, which is the quarters to the Boston fab laboratory to talk about the condition of the labs in the technical areas of work, also on how the equipments are being used currently in fab lab, and what they will be building very soon. Most of them had a view of working collectively with some of the other workers to solve all the problems they are universally facing like getting economical Internet right to use into their organizations soon. According to Mel King who is the director of SETC, he thinks that progress is eventually dependent on cooperation.
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