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- Title
Making progress?
- Authors
Ihde, Don
- Abstract
This article presents information on the book "FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop: From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication," by Neil Gershenfeld. The rhetorical cast of FAB is one of technofantasy and wild projection, which strangely recalls some equally extravagant medieval theological puzzles. The book arose from a popular course at MIT, "How To Make Anything," taught by Gershenfeld. It draws many students from diverse backgrounds, all enthusiastic to build, or "personally fabricate," things. From the second chapter on, one can get description of some of these objects. The trajectory that dominates FAB is the production of many types of "Hello World" artefacts. Hello World is the standard test for computer languages, can be printed out by any desktop computer hooked up to a printer.
- Subjects
FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop: From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication (Book); GERSHENFELD, Neil; BOOKS; PROGRAMMING languages; STUDENTS; CURRICULUM
- Publication
Nature, 2005, Vol 435, Issue 7038, p23
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/435023a