Simply Ted

Self-replicating desktop manufacturing systems are on the near future horizon. From this CrunchGear entry: 'The future of fabricatio...

By 2015, cheap bandwidth and computer processing power, combined with powerful video compression will end commercial television. From The In...

Marshall Brain is an ongoing source of great, well articulated ideas. I really like his "as simple as possible but no simpler" wri...

As information technology evolves, new ways of spreading information spontaneously emerge. Inevitably, "mass media" becomes decent...

In October 2004, I began tracking the rise of crude personal fabricators hacked from Inkjet printers. We are now on the verge of self-replic...

Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, who runs a one-semester smash-hit class called "How to Make Almost Anythin...

Add another one to the list. A machine that can rapid prototype and replicate is in development. It will be released as open source meaning...

We wear the same body and brains as Cro-Magnon humans did. The same people who rubbed sticks together for fire, driven by hunger to the hunt...

In a jag of hardware hacking, the humble inkjet printer is transformed into a crude fabricator. Disgorging a growing array of computer parts...