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Counterinsurgents Should Consider a 'Fabrication Cell'
by possibly noteworthy at 12:28 pm EDT, Jul 6, 2007

Consider the implications of the fact that a suite full of inexpensive machines -- say between $5,000 and $25,000 in cost -- can be used to fabricate just about anything, given a little training on the machines and a good bit of ingenuity.

The author focuses on the power of his team getting a fablab. I would ask, consider the implications of a fablab-powered insurgency. Whereas Negroponte seeks one laptop per child in Africa, a wealthy extremist might establish a One FabLab Per Jihadist program throughout the Middle East. Maybe it would even be a BioFabLab.


 
 
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