{"id":263,"date":"2007-11-13T20:40:08","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2007-11-13T20:40:08","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T18:40:08","slug":"sc07-mit-fab-labs-and-empowering-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"SC07, MIT Fab labs, and empowering people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sc07.supercomp.org\/\">SuperComputing&#8217;07<\/a> keynote was a talk by Neil Gershenfeld, director of the Center for Bits and Atoms at the MIT. He mentioned the <a href=\"http:\/\/fab.cba.mit.edu\/\">MIT Fab Labs<\/a>, a project to bring &#8220;Personal Fabrication&#8221; to people around the around.<\/p>\n<p>At our own level, that&#8217;s something I find very exciting with Free Software: it empowers people to do things with their computers that they couldn&#8217;t do if they were using proprietary software, simply because proprietary software is built to fit most people&#8217;s needs, not very specific goals some people could have.  (and this is similar to the Long Tail stuff, in some ways)<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you are at SC07 and reading this, feel free to ping me! I haven&#8217;t seen a lot of Debian\/Ubuntuers here, even if the Free\/Proprietary software ratio is very high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s SuperComputing&#8217;07 keynote was a talk by Neil Gershenfeld, director of the Center for Bits and Atoms at the MIT. He mentioned the MIT Fab Labs, a project to bring &#8220;Personal Fabrication&#8221; to people around the around. At our own level, that&#8217;s something I find very exciting with Free Software: it empowers people to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debianubuntu","category-jabber","category-planetdebian","category-planetubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}