F4E, Fabbing for Everyone is a similar idea, but for the physical world. A fab lab capable of building practically any physical object, including things like circuit boards, can be approximated for about US$25,000 and they're being installed in Ghana, rural India, inner-city Boston, etc. Eight-year-olds can learn to use these tools to design 3-D objects, build them, program the microcontroller, etc. Even more, people are communicating their designs, teaching each other how to use the tools, posting CAD and wiring diagrams on their blogs, sharing ideas, and writing open-source software to make the whole process more integrated and accessible.
There's a discussion from ETech on ITConversations here: http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail460.html
The MIT Center for Bits and Atoms FabLab webpage is here: http://cba.mit.edu/projects/fablab/
Make Magazine covers the fab lab in issue #1 and their blog keeps up with similar do-it-yourself projects:
http://www.makezine.com/blog/
The Hack-a-day blog covers similar ground: http://www.hackaday.com/
My question to the list is, if you could build anything you wanted, what would you build? And further: how would you have answered 10 years ago? How would you have answered when you were 8 years old?
--Dethe
"Ambiguity, calculated or generative, as a means of discontinuous organization, at first seems familiar to us"
-- Pain Not Bread, An introduction to Du Fu
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