"Basically the goal is to create a Star Trek-style replicator in 20 years, " Gershenfeld says.

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Such is the thinking of Neil Gershenfeld, physicist, MIT professor and the inventor of the Fab Lab.

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Gershenfeld's school-age children invented it one weekend in the family's own Fab Lab.

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Maybe the most interesting bit was when Neil Gershenfeld forcefully reminded us that the Internet was never intended to be just a bitnet.

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Gershenfeld has shipped 26 Fab Labs around the world since 2002.

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