Neil Gershenfeld
Neil Gershenfeld
Neil A. Gershenfeld is an American professor at MIT and the director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, a sister lab to the MIT Media Lab. His research studies are predominantly focused in interdisciplinary studies involving physics and computer science, in such fields as quantum computing, nanotechnology, and personal fabrication. Gershenfeld attended Swarthmore College, where he graduated in 1981 with a B.A. degree in physics with high honors, and Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D.in physics in 1990...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
You don't need personal fabrication in the home to buy what you can buy because you can buy it. You need it for what makes you unique, just like personalization.
We've had a digital revolution, but we don't need to keep having it. And I'd like to look after that, to look what comes after the digital revolution.
A Web browser for parrots isn't meant to serve a scalable business market,
If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.
Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way.