The Internet is a network of instant gratification, but it is limited to communicating informa-tion products. The Internet today cannot serve for delivery of physical products. If the Internet is used for ordering a physical product, that product is delivered by 20th-century technologies of trucks and airplanes. In other words, the Internet today is all about bits, not atoms. Bits are the ones and zeroes of digital information.
Atoms are the tiny units of physical materials.
On the Internet today, there is no connection. In the future, a new kind of Internet appliance will allow people to download the digital description of a product and have that product made immediately and automatically. Fabbers use 21st-century technology to translate digital product data into physical goods. A fabber is a three-dimensional printer. It renders 3-D digital data in solid material.