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Nature 442, 862-864 (24 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/442862a; Published online 23 August 2006
Appropriate technology: Make anything, anywhere
Apoorva Mandavilli1
- Apoorva Mandavilli is senior news editor for Nature Medicine.
Abstract
Can everyone use technology creatively? Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think so and have launched 'Fab Labs' around the world to prove it. Apoorva Mandavilli reports.
Neil Gershenfeld has been teaching a class called "How to make (almost) anything" to some of the brightest young adults in the United States for years. But it took an eight-year-old girl in a small village in Ghana to show that anyone, anywhere, really can make just about anything.
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