Fab Labs Take Over The World – Who Will Be 1000th?

The principle of a Fab Lab (fabrication laboratory) in a nutshell is this: to empower people of the world through an ability to make things, almost any things. They were first set up by MIT Professor, Neil Gershenfeld in 2001 and in the past 15 years the project has thrived – now covering every continent on the globe except Antarctica. According to the online data here there are 979 Fab Labs across the globe. This number has grown at an impressive rate. In January 2014 there were 186 Fab Labs, by June that year the number was 349 and then in July 2015 there were 547 Fab Labs listed. As the number reaches almost one thousand we take a brief look at the history of the project and take a look at some of the important ways they have contributed to communities. Fab Lab founder Neil Gershenfeld explains,
MIT can fit a few thousand people, out of a planet of a few billion. Wherever we open a Fab Lab, we’ve found that it attracts exactly the same profile of bright, inventive people. Read More...