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Capitalist companies' underutilization of computers' productive potential has been frequently noted by ludic specialists. The range of manufactures computers' peripheral equipment could achieve unceasingly continues to lengthen. A new giant step has been passed with the development of "fabbers" or "digital fabricators," which, transportable in a station wagon or little truck, can manufacture any three dimensional object in a minimal amount of time, at minimal cost.
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In an article published in Open Source Jahrbuch 2005, Stefen Merten and Stefan Meretz, cofounders of Oekonux, describe the fabber as a machine that neither predetermines nor limits the ends to which it may be used; a machine that - unlike robots - does not limit itself to automating and copying a defined labor process. Any process can be programmed into the same machine which prefigures a society in which "human energy and creativity are no longer required except to produce informational goods" which will put the manufacturing process into motion. Fabbers "abolish all limitation on the flowering of human faculties"
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