The first digital revolution was in communication, and the second digital revolution was in computation. We’re now at the cusp of a third digital revolution, in fabrication, that is bringing the programmability of the digital world out into the physical world.The impact of this one will be even greater than the first two, fulfilling their promise by merging bits and atoms.
Join Prof. Gershenfeld during his opening keynote on September 16 to look back at insights from the last fifty years of the scaling of digital technologies, and look ahead to what’s coming in the next fifty years!