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We've had a digital revolution,

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but we don't need to keep having it.

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We can declare success. We won.

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What's coming now is the

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digital revolution in fabrication.

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My colleagues and I started teaching a

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class called "How to make almost anything".

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And the idea was just that.

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It's a program looking at how the digital

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world relates to the physical world.

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And one of the core things coming out of

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the research is the idea of digital fabrication:

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making the "Star Trek" replicator -- an assembler

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that makes anything you want

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by building the atoms on up.

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[To class: "This is designed where you..."]

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Millions of dollars of equipment at MIT

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are like the mainframes of digital fabrication.

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We can make anything we want

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using those tools and in 20 years,

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we'll make it so that you can have it in the home.

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The Fab Labs are in-between.

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They've spread all around the world,

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letting ordinary people create technology

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from South Africa to the north of Norway,

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and from rural India to inner-city Boston.

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Instead of spending vast amounts of money

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to send computers and energy

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and comminication around the world,

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you can spend much less to send the means

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the means to create it.

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Energy, communication, computation.

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Just to say the words, they sound big.

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They're being tackled as billion-dollar

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mega-projects top-down.

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Fab Labs is tackling them

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from the bottom up.

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We're just finding so many people,

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with such interesting inventions

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and such great ideas.

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Sharing that is where I see this going.

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[Principal Voices, in association with Shell.]