Neil Gershenfeld Quotes (7 Quotes)

What we are interested in is merging the computer with the clothing so that all you need to do is get dressed.

By personal fabrication, what I mean is ordinary people creating, rather than consuming technology, creating technology to solve local problems.

A Web browser for parrots isn't meant to serve a scalable business market,

If you give people access to means to solve their own problems, it touches something very, very deep,

For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork.

The research is aiming to make a molecular assembler, one machine that can build, on a molecular scale, anything.

By not lobbing a few extra cannon shells, he could afford to make these community investments.