Neil Gershenfeld of MIT says a revolution is on the horizon for manufacturing -- that existing technologies and tools can bring capabilities once only held by huge factories down to the personal level.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5008294

Geek stuff is cool.

I'd love to have one of those.  I think the progress of invention would increase to an unbelievable rate...  

The down side is that a lot of manufacturing companies would go out of business...  Or turn into "design" companies.

once they start talking about star trek and replicators, there was no doubt i was listening in a geek talk   :lol:

Our country abandoned manufacturing and it's workforce years ago.  

When the American people decide they want quality over quantity, we'll be waiting...

Regards,

The American machinist.