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When Things Start to Think 1999 225 pages Complementary Texts Woodrow Barfield and Thomas Caudell Yuichi Ohta and Hideyuki Tamura Keywords Resources Copyright © 2000-2007 Isabel Pedersen |
An excellent
look into the near future. Gershenfeld explores the
ways in which technology that we have reserved only for the desktop computer,
will emerge into our everyday life. One of the most interesting ideas is the
Personal fabricator, a 3D printer, which allows people to design and recreate
things from designs in real life. Gershenfeld
explains that there is no need to confine the creation of multimedia to the computer
screen, why can’t the ordinary person design and fabricate real 3D objects in
the home. Gershenfeld, of the MIT media lab, offers a survey of
several inspiring ideas; he explores the idea of smart money, books that
reformat themselves to display different texts, shoes that can hold and
exchange information. |