MIT professor explains fabrication: How to make (almost) anything | Neil Gershenfeld and Lex Fridman

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GUEST BIO:
Neil Gershenfeld is the director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms.

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[LexClips]

Guest bio: Neil Gershenfeld is the director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms.

[rezadaneshi]

I’m a fabricator for almost 40 years. Digital fabrication is a blueprint including jigs to make the parts, parts to interact into specific functions, functions that are sequenced in least action rendering a vertical prototype. It’s an A to Z map of how to create, assemble and calibrate a working prototype

[CADclassOfficial]

Amazing to see a fellow maker on your pod, Lex. Love fab labs and love the idea that we should ALL have access and training to be able to use these machines. I’ve run thousands of kids and adults through programs and training and have seen nothing less than a transformation in many of their lives. 🎉

[pbourd]

The First Immortal novel by James Halperin 1998 describes the solution to human reanimation after Cryopreservation, is nanobots that are cleverly in two classes: disassemblers & reassemblers, the disassemblers assess the cellular damage by ice crystals, remove bloated ice, reassemblers repair the cells, etc, until the body is sufficiently ready for rejuvenated animation. ❤ looks like MIT will find a way.

[alexjbriiones]

MIT is the world's 10th economy! That's mind-blowing. Thanks for having Neil. He is an awesome guest, besides, he reminds me a little of Albert Einstein.

[joewright]

I was selling pcs in the early 80s when DEC brought out the Rainbow, and if memory serves, without referring to Google or wiki, it ran cp/m and died on the vine along with Vines, the precursor to Novell.

[andrearenee]

Nothing like welcoming in the creative and the genius ...

[megaboz]

Can I make a nuclear reactor in a Fab Lab? Or does that fit into the "almost" category?

[diegoangulo]

0:40 hey makes no sense but then again it’s not my job to understand! :O

[leelivezey]

God I'd love to have a beer with Neil! So, now how about the trend of AI following the same path as computer hardware from centralized to ubiquitous? Does AI autonomous agency (like Tesla FSD) lead to a future where human literate personal AI resides in our earbuds? Where trusted digital sidekicks start to pry loose some of our dependency on the Googles and Amazons of the world? Call me an optimist but I think we've started down that path.

[k.butler]

Maybe compute shouldn't be so personal, given the supply chain and raw material concerns, along with effects of social media on teens, there's a case to be made for computer labs.

[Seanomarachain]

We are going back to mediaeval times. We'll create our own tools.

[jeffprice]

So these structures are, in a long enough timeline .... going to turn all organic material into grey dust. Good job, everyone!