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by Neil Gershenfeld (Author)

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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Basic Books; 1st ed edition (23 Mar 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0465027458
ISBN-13: 978-0465027453
Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 16.8 x 3 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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Imagine a world in which your own personalized electronic products could be made by you, in your own home. Sound like Science Fiction? Well it might not be as futuristic as you think...According to the acclaimed techno-prognosticator Neil Gershenfeld, the next big thing is personal fabrication - the ability, literally, to make your own products, in your own home, with a miniaturized machine that combines consumer electronics with industrial tools. It might sound far-fetched, but in fact it is exactly where the 'digital revolution' was at the dawn of the age of personal computers. Personal fabricators are tomorrow's personal computers. They will bring the programmability of the digital world to the rest of the world, by being able to make anything (including themselves).

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Neil Gershenfeld is the former director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, and he now directs MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. He is the author of When Things Start to Think and has been featured in The New York Times and The Economist.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Email a bicycle? An important book dealing in a funky way with some of the most important technological issues of our time!, 24 Jul 2006

By	T. R. Smith "Tom Smith" (Belmont, Lancashire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I came to this book by accident. I heard a radio programme about personal fabrication and included was a review of Neil Gershenfeld's book.I was prompted to find out more.
The book describes a mixture of zany and socially desirable case study applications of personal fabrication,the technology behind it,a discussion of the wider implications and a (too)short commentary on the dangers and ethical issues surounding self reproducing machines.
The book centres on what I would suspect will be one of the key issues of the 21st century - the development of personally customised objects as opposed to the one size fits all mass produced object. I quickly warmed to Neil Gershenfeld's enthusiasm for his subject. I was also particularly impressed by his idealism about the application of this development in helping to solve problems that are left unaddressed by the profit motive.(His illustration of how components picked up in a second hand Indian electronics market can be recycled to make effective machines to solve pressing third world agricultural and educational problems was particularly poignant) It does not take a genius however to see how this technology can be exploited and restricted for political and so called 'security' purposes. Unfortunately one suspects that the genorousity and idealism that has created the internet and allowed it to grow in the way it has may not be so apparent in the development of personalised fabrication.
The book is constructed in a rather quirky and funky fashion reflecting Neil Gershenfield's enthusiasms but deals with some of the most imoportant issues of our time that quite rightly touch on creativity,social interaction and the nature and purpose of engineering.It clearly outlines how applications of personal fabrication. Personal Fabrication will soon make a very real difference to all of our lives.
As a non engineer I was kept on track by the straight forward explanations and my interest was held by memorable images e-mailing a bicycle, construction as childsplay and the potential accessibility of relatively simple machines to help solve complex social problems.
This is an important and optimistic book that should be widely read though I suspect there will soon be many more books around personal fabrication reflecting the wider debate it will spark.

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