Personal Fabrication
Fortune on MIT’s Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA):
Today your all-in-one device prints, scans, faxes and copies. Tomorrow it will cut, score, etch and sew. Want a new dining room chair? You’ll design it on a PC and press PRINT, and your personal fabricator will create it for you right before your eyes. Just make sure tray No. 2 has enough wood.
Source: Fortune Magazine: A Factory of One’s Own