Neil Gershenfeld, from The Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT, opened today’s eTech session. His wide-ranging talk mainly focused on “making things” and the challenges and rewards that come from actually building real objects in the physical world. His group has created a traveling fabrication facility and have taken it around the world, to mostly 3rd world countries, to demonstrate the power of being able to make useful items, locally.
You don’t tell people about science, you give them the capabilities to create science.