“We've had a digital revolution, but we don't need to keep having it. A...” — Neil Gershenfeld Quote

We've had a digital revolution, but we don't need to keep having it. And I'd like to look after that, to look what comes after the digital revolution.

Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way.

The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.

I went to a music store and I saw this machine called the Roland MC-505. It was just a groovebox - half analogue, half digital, like a sequencer with all these cool synthesiser sounds. I was like, 'I'm going to treat it more like a punk instrument.'

I think someone like Jack Kirby, for instance, would suffer greatly in the transition from print to digital were he still around.

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

My muse is the digital world.

I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.