New Media Artist #5 Fab Lab

The ARS Electronica Center in Austria features the newest trends, focusing on what the future has in store for art and technology . One new exhibition entitled Fab Lab has redefined the meaning of on-line shopping. No longer will you have to wait days or weeks for your order to be shipped to you but rather you can have everything instantly. Simply print out what you want, wear it, and then recycle it! The creators of Fab Lab have engineered a 3D printer that uses a computer model to generate an actual object, while a computer-controlled laser cutter does the high-precision shaping of any chosen material. From gym shoes to clothing to even pieces of furniture FabLab can make it. However, although FabLab seems like the greatest invention since on-line shopping, one may consider the repercussions of such technology on our already struggling consumer-driven economy and industry. Could inventions like this lead us closer and closer to a job market ran solely by computers and machines? 

FabLab