Neil Gershenfeld: The beckoning promise of personal fabrication

[@GregoryFesto]

Wow, that was really fascinating! I want more! And yes, thank God for TED!!!

[@manouchk38]

The next revolution already started! People locally developing local solutions. The product that has a market of one. Production that do respect individuality!

[@lilianelapointe9274]

Il y a plusieurs erreurs dans la traduction française, erreurs de frappe principalement, surtout vers la fin de la vidéo ("San Fransisco", "utlime", ...). À vérifier! Vidéo très intéressante, merci!

[@ArbitraryxIntentions]

My favorite ted talk of all time.

[@ArbitraryxIntentions]

Thomas Calloway Thank you very much, watching it right now.

[@swingbabu2006]

Also that device where the girl scream into it and then released that voice later outdoor, can be made out of a digital voice recorder and a sound proof bag, but thats not what she did (i hope;-)). That bag is made of material which can store sound and release later on. So the concept of storing information in transistors are gone, these smart devices or materials can store and process data. Thats the whole point of this presentation I guess...

[@swingbabu2006]

You are welcome. There is another presentation "Inventor Saul Griffith shares some innovative ideas TEDTalks" talking about similar subject. Very interesting...

[@swingbabu2006]

Imagine to build a house, all you have to do is collect all materials like - bricks and wooden blocks and steel - required for building and just pile them together. Those materials will interact and form position themselves in proper way, so that a house will be the ultimate results. Kind of interesting idea isn't it ?. By the way those materials wont be steel or clay... but accordig to my understanding from his speech, they are smart devices.

[@IntheeyesofMorbo]

People like this remind me of Leonard of Quirm in Terry Pratchetts Discworld series lol. He was incredibly brilliant but had no idea the chaos his inventions could cause on the world so the benevolent dictator Havelok Vetinari had Leonard locked up in a secure lab lol (Im joking but the implications of this could be staggering in the long term in a good way but very painful while the technology revolution occurs)

[@artilistic]

i totally agree every thing is simple and can be explained simply its people tho that work really hard and want to make it sound complicated because they worked so hard to get over that wall they don't want just anyone to be able to understand it easily

[@bhargaviraman]

This is amazing!

[@greenarmadel]

seemed easy enough to follow if, like his intended audience, you already know some very basic premises

[@hieroglyph321]

Fascinating. Thanks.

[@KJLesnick]

I'm not saying I don't want people to be able to provide for themselves... I'm just saying that creating the technology to manufacture 3D printing of components which can form the basis of self-replication would be dangerous to everybody.

[@invrnrv]

I want a world where I can't have what I want. QED.

[@claudionascimentodesouza3107]

Thanks!

[@smorrow]

No it's Thompson and Ritche

[@sawri]

If it's a universal law, you should be able to prove it mathematically. So, prove mathematically that every single human being can not have what he or she wants.

[@quibbage]

just because you cant understand all that "technical mumbo jumbo" doesn't mean you should bash it.

[@MrLesWhite]

wow this is already realized! problem is MIT's ingenuity as he points out somewhat ends at the technical execution. too bad they don't allow the public more access to innovations to develop applications, because as pharma fig R&D is the small step; the clinical trials are where the gold is. I am sure countless life enhancements were left on the cutting room floor due to short sightedness ahh

[@incipientelse]

no: his presentation is extremely streamlined to fit into the fixed format of TED presentations - his presentation is logical and sequential, although if he lost you somewhere it is up to you to go back, find where you got lost, and get back up to speed. wtf is your attention span so minute?

[@gadgetwhore2]

The only danger is to the people trying to sell things you can make yourself. I really don't understand how you can confuse freedom with danger. What is the danger, specifically? not trying to be argumentative.

[@chopinplaya]

And I expect that you do understand it.

[@MADERPLAST.VIDEOS]

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[@chycho]

awesome :-)

[@120dbdavid]

Flying Saucers,Flying Triangles,UFO's How They Fly,

[@Quantum_Dots]

any one watching in 2022 ?

[@1schwererziehbar1]

heh? what die valentina kofi make?

[@mrkvamaster]

W O W !

[@bikos236590]

OMG :D

[@PeterBremer]

The problem is, he makes simple things sound incredibly complicated. He could have been a huge success as a stand-up comedian talking like this about every-day stuff. But as a presenter of "alternative" thinking / "new" ideas, he fails miserably.

[@KJLesnick]

That sounds like a disaster: Self replicating machines. Sounds like a great way to turn the world to grey goo...

[@matchbox555]

bullshit he needs to take communication skill classes