A biography for Neil Gershenfeldhasn’t been written yet.
“We've had a digital revolution, but we don't need to keep having it. And I'd like to look after that, to look what comes after the digital revolution.”
“If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.”
“Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.”
“You don't need personal fabrication in the home to buy what you can buy because you can buy it. You need it for what makes you unique, just like personalization.”
“Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way.”
“The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.”