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Fabs - The New Revolution

Physics genius plans to make 'Star Trek' replicator a reality

And not some loony in a garage who thinks he's Dick Van Dyke in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. This is Neil Gershenfeld, director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Bits and Atoms and a certifiable physics genius. He's got backing from the National Science Foundation. He's got interest from the Pentagon, venture capitalists and foreign governments. This week, he's in South Africa, where he's setting up one of his creations in Pretoria.

He calls his machines "fabs," and he's just published a book about his work, Fab: The Coming Revolution On Your Desktop - From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication.
Ref. https://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kev...eplicator_x.htm

Revolution The Fabs

Well this is pretty cool. The article is more about what could be then about what currently is now. Its a very good idea that may one day work. I don't know how far it will get, but when I started working on computers, I had no idea that I would ever be typing and ripping a DVD at the same time. In fact, DVD's didn't even exist. That was ten short years ago. In ten short years, will we find ourselves with a home Fab machine just like with the computer? Maybe it would even be integrated with the computers of the day!