THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 — Page 7 - The Diigo Meta page

• 26 Aug 07
  

  eyal matsliah

  edge predictions science thinkers

  • NEIL GERSHENFELD
      Physicist;  Director, Center for Bits and Atoms, MIT; Author, Fab
     
     
      Democratizing access to the means of invention

     

    The  elite temples of research (of the kind I've happily spent my  career in) may be becoming intellectual dinosaurs as a result  of the digitization and personalization of fabrication.
  • The  ultimate consequence of the digitization of first communications,  then computation, and now fabrication, is to democratize access  to the means of invention. The third world can skip over the first  and second cultures and go right to developing a third culture.  Rather than today's model of researchers researching for researchees,  the result of all that discovery has been to enable a planet of  creators rather than consumers.

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