The Future of ‘Fab Lab’ Fabrication

In 1965, tech pioneer Gordon Moore noticed a trend: The number of components on an integrated circuit was doubling every year. He predicted this would continue, resulting in wildly powerful digital devices. It was an audacious forecast (he later revised the interval to every two years), but Moore’s law more or less held for five decades, shrinking the computer from room-sized appliance to ­pocketable smartphone. The world of bits was transformed.

Now there’s Lass’ law–the prediction that the number of fab labs, or such tools, will double roughly every year and a half.

Clive Thompson

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