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One room, three Linux computers, a laser, some apparatuses to numerical control, one scanner three-dimensional voilà ET: here all the necessary one in order to construct objects that they carry in the physical world the digital elaboration three-dimensional them. These apparatuses are only some of the instruments all over the world use in the FabLab, abbreviation to you of Fabrication Laboratory, scattered. They are already seven and the last one has been inaugurated to Pretoria, in South Africa. Down here, exactly like in omonimo the Norwegian detachment, the ancestors of the molecular replicatori of Star Trek are the daily bread for tens of investigators of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms. To the inside of the several FabLab, the students work in order to put to point a technology open source that he allows the replication of objects.

Up to now they are resolutions to realize antennas wireless, small electronic apparatuses and glances at them alone. Leaving from raw materials natural ones or he crafts them like wood and polymer alloys, in near future the FabLab could be uses you in order to complete the last step towards the automation total of the industry. A change of paradigm that will put in doubt the foundations of the same concept of the copyright: with the facility of use of odierno a masterizzatore CD, with the necessary plan and members it will be possible to produce of all.

Biologi, chemical, matemati and engineers to us: the plans develop the FabLab within to you will carry one ventata of fresh air on the entire technological panorama. The cost of the universal constructor is elevated: a complete prototype demands an investment of approximately 16mila euro. But the replicatori of the future, develop to you with nanoelettroniche technologies, will succeed in to cost paltry figures, under the 1000 euro. In the writing desks of all the world, beside printing, small "portable factories" will be able therefore to appear. Destined irrimediabilmente to become, or soon late, molecular assemblers.

It is the dream of Neil Gershenfeld, doctor in physics and visionario student of the infinitely small one. By now from years to the pursuit of that Replicatore that up to now has been looked at only to edge of the Enterprise, the scientist is sure that its distance of search will carry pr0sperity and wealth to the poor populations of the globe. With the exception of similar machinery he develops to you from the University of Cambridge, in United Kingdom, the replicatori of the FabLab will serve in order to carry the technology here where he does not exist.

In its book "FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop ", Gershenfeld paints the scene of a future more and more close: "the digital it divides in truth is not the only abyss: between we and the poor countries there is also an instrumental and industrial abyss. Through computer science it is possible to carry the progress to the tribes Knows to me of the high Norway, putting them in a position to beginning from constructing to simple apparatuses for the radio communication iron pieces, therefore like to the children of India in the disperse villages ". It does not remain that to hope in the farsightedness of the team directed from Gershenfeld. But all those is not gold that luccica: until the advent of the atomic nanoassemblatori, still distant, they remain the great problems raises from the distribution of the raw materials the and gigantic one to you scoglio of energetic supplying.