FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication

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Gershenfeld, who runs MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, foresees a time when computers will upgrade from PCs to PFs, or personal fabricators.

Product Designers and manufacturers may be faced with the same problems of musicians and record labels. Why buy Optimus Prime at a store when you can just go to a peer 2 peer site, download the file and print him out in 3D with your personal fabricator?

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