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Neil Gershenfeld has been known to make some bold predictions about the future. But even by his standards, this one was a doozy. "Twenty years from now," he told a 2006 conference in Berkeley, "we'll have Star Trek replicators that can make anything." You remember the replicator -- the one that provided Captain Picard with his cup of "tea, Earl Grey, hot," with a simple verbal prompt? It might sound like jet-age fantasy, but Gershenfeld was absolutely serious with his reference."

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