Sunday 23 December 2007

Fab Book: Fab - The Coming Revolution on Your Desk from Personal computers to Personal Fabrication

FAB book by Neil Gershenfeld (2005) is genuinely fab & full of innovative ideas and how communities have been empowered with the MIT's FAB LAB.

Fab Lab is an MIT project. They have set up projects all around the world from rural India, to Costa Rica to Northern Norway to Ghana.  They are not just any old projects, they are very exciting projects that liberate local people, for instance, the project in Bithoor on the banks of the Ganges in India.  Local women funded via a micro credit loan able to use a 3-D printer to develop their designs for chikan - a local type of embroidery.  It sounds amazing.

Another theme is mass customisation becoming personal customisation due to the development of technology. The same too applies to Globalization being replaced by Localization...

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