Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop-from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication - Softcover

Gershenfeld, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1459610571 ISBN 13: 9781459610576

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, 2012

Synopsis

What if you could someday put the manufacturing power of an automobile plant on your desktop? According to Neil Gershenfeld, the renowned MIT scientist and inventor, the next big thing is personal fabrication-the ability to design and produce your own products, in your own home, with a machine that combines consumer electronics and industrial tools. Personal fabricators are about to revolutionize the world just as personal computers did a generation ago, and Fab shows us how.

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Review:

"Accessible, inspiring and wonderfully human: sure to spark the imagination."

"Gershenfeld is a visionary who sees us on the edge of a renaissance as interesting as the personal computer revolution." -- Jeff Bezos

"Gershenfeld writes with the agility of a high-wire artist and the style of a best-selling novelist....Fab is fascinating. Prepare to be amazed."

"Gershenfeld's account of the technology's evolution is delicious. An accessible book that even non-technophiles will love. In fact, Fab should be required reading for foreign-service officers, managers in humanitarian agencies, and others working to alleviate poverty."

About the Author:

Neil Gershenfeld is the Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, and the former director of its famed Media Lab. The author of numerous technical publications, patents, and books, including When Things Start to Think, he has been featured in media such as the New York Times, The Economist, CNN, and PBS. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1459610571
• ISBN 13: 9781459610576
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360