Answer each of the following questions after listening to the podcast for this week and reading the "Making sense of the research" section. Use complete sentences and references to reinforce your position. The direct link provides a transcript of the following podcasts.
Fab At Home Podcast Downloadable .mp3 (check attachment home)
https://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.php?DocID=324 Direct link to the Podcast
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1. What is a fabricator?
2. What are the advantages of FabAtHome, compared with industrial fabricators? What are the disadvantages?
3. What does "open source" mean? How does it apply to FabAtHome?
4. Do you think open source is a good or bad thing for technology? Do you believe in making open source reference materials, like Wikipedia? What about textbooks? What about works of art, like novels or poems?
5. How might fabricators and open source projects affect the economy? Can you think of possible consequences not mentioned above?