Mickey McManus explores what might happen if we could eliminate the current material monoculture and use computation, network effects, and AI to usher in a new living material age that unlocks the unexpected wonders hidden in Nature’s 3+ billion year old R&D lab.
You can find a deeper dive on Mickey’s journey to become a design scientist here, find out more about the Planet Action Summit that this was a part of here, about the Silk Lab here, and about the How to Grow Almost Anything class here. If you’re curious what the current class is like, here is the home page.
Three diagrams discussed in the talk…



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