Fab labs have spread around the world, having been established in the remotest of places and countries. In his interview with Discover magazine on the question what personal fabrication might be useful for, Gershenfeld said, "There is a surprising need for emergent technologies in many of the least developed places on the planet. While our needs might be fairly well met, there are billions of people on the planet whose needs are not. Their problems don't need incremental tweaks in current technology, but a revolution". As well as "How to make (almost) anything" class, Gershenfeld has started teaching the following classes: "How To Make Something That Makes (almost) Anything", "The Physics of Information Technology", "The Nature of Mathematical Modeling". Gershenfeld has been a keynote speaker at the Congress of Science and Technology Leaders (2015, 2016). Research Neil Gershenfeld and his students have done an extensive amount of research. His research was published in Science as well as in The American Physical Society journal. Amongst many is the research on Experimental Implementation of Fast Quantum Searching, Microfluidic Bubble Logic research, Physical one-way functions. Bibliography ; ; (hbk) ebook References External links Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT Science magazine website American Physical Society website Fab Foundation website Living people 21st-century American physicists Harvard Fellows Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty Cornell University alumni Swarthmore College alumni MIT Media Lab people Quantum information scientists 1959 births Fellows of the American Physical Society