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Fab: the coming revolution on your desktop : from personal computers to personal fabrication

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...

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Autor principal: Gershenfeld, Neil
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Basic Books 2005
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2053734
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Sumario: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.