What happens when Moore’s Law and Metcalfe’s Law meet Mother Nature? | Mickey McManus | TEDxBoston
A biomaterials revolution! Trees don’t order leaves from a central factory and staple them on their branches. Fish don’t order replacement scales online. Children don’t visit a service center every few months during puberty to swap out their bones. Mother Nature’s 4 billion year old R&D lab is showing off how to not only make things, but also unmake them just as consistently and effectively. The rise of AI-based generative design tools and open, connected, antidisciplinary polymathic technoscience labs are unlocking discoveries of key structural proteins that themselves are foundation models for profound wonder. We are on the cusp of a new biomaterial age. We need an unexpected wonder and material surprise movement fully that embraces the variable and programmable nature of Nature. Mickey McManus is the author of Trillions - Thriving in the Information Ecology. He’s a senior advisor, leadership coach, faculty in executive education at BCG, a research fellow emeritus at Autodesk’s Office of the CTO, and a visiting scholar in bioengineering at Tufts University. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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