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Human Knowledge

Mostly gained by the mastery

and exploitation of natural

materials over thousands of

years...

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From Swords to Instruments of Science...

...leading to innovation and invention spanning organics, inorganics, minerals, plants, animals, gasses, fluids, ores, crystals...

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> 1 nm > 20 nm > 1000 nm> 100 nm

Atom Virus Crystal Bacteria

LeadingEdge

LeadingEdge

ProductionChips

Nano -Tech

Evolutionary / Exploration Dimension Line

Human Ingenuity

Natural Evolution

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We have created a world where we the manufacture goods in vast quantitates at consistently high quality...

...but now face the limitations of the planet !

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A of worldubiquitous

computing connectivity

communication fixed and mobile

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A world of man-made materials that do not occur naturally in nature...

. ..but where our core knowledge now spans atom, molecule grain and fibre...

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Sustainability cannot be realized with old technologies & the industry models of the past...

Probably our biggest challenge!

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Continuing to do what we have always done, but more efficiently, will

not solve our ‘green’ issues

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Changing all the lightbulbs is just

not enough !

We have to think and act in radically

different ways...and we have to exploit

new materials...

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We h av e t o a d o p t s y m b i o t i c solutions...to work with nature instead of against her !

We have to move from:

‘Food to Waste’ cycles, to

...to ‘Food to Waste to Food’...

We have to move away from:

‘producing more and more for the few’ to

‘producing sufficient for the many’

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ITdoesn’t

have to be this way

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Membrane Battery

Communications Film

Computing Film

Interface Film

Just suppose...we c o u l d g o f r o m integrating boxes by hand and machine to printing...

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The printing of static and

moving parts, tools & complex

components is rapidly going

main stream...

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Boeing are printing over 300 piece parts for the DreamLiner

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The US military are deploying

3D printers on the front line

and laboratories

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The first printed cars have been produced...

Self healing body panels ?

Programmable colour schemes ?

Batteries integrated into the body shell ?

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3D Printed Lower Mandible

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Organic 3D printing is also advancing rapidly !

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Stronger, harder, lighter by 5 - 10 x fold

Lower oxidation rates - and longer life

Use far less to achieve far more

And then there are the new high performance materials such as Nano - Steels and Alloys

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Growing nano-tubes

Pulling nano-tubes and twisting into fibres

Forming nano-tubes

As things get smaller we can achieve greater purity and strength

Diameter > 1nmStrength > 5 -10 x steel

Electrical Current Density 1000 x Copper

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In the future we could be shipping bits instead of atoms:

- Designs

- Solutions

- Expertise

- Knowledge

- Wisdom ??

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But biology says we can program

materials to do our bidding...if only we

can master the genome - protein

relationships...

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A breathing

lung grown

of proteins

a n d s t e m

cells...Thursday, 28 March 13

Replacement parts can now be

grown using the hosts cells

with no immune system

rejection...

...many die through secondary infections...

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Cancer: something that infected us

OR: a communications problem between genome and proteins ?

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This is all converging in

sensors, robotic & human

prosthetics...

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Direct connection of man & machine - biological control of robotic elements...

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Direct connection of m a n & m a c h i n e - mac h i n e c on t ro l o f biological elements...

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Nano sensors can now detect a single molecule of a substance in near real time...

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Genomic profiling at the doctors office will revolutionize medicine

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We need a symbiotic relationship with our material world and the help of intelligent machines to find workable

solutions whilst minimizing waste and energy usage

It may also be the only way to analyze and cope with complexity, and the data explosion,

in a world with everyone and everything on-line, whilst enabling us to make good

and sound predictions, and wise decisionsThursday, 28 March 13

What we know for sure....In the next phase of technology and industry the winning

companies and people will be the risk takers, and the ones who dared to be different...

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Thank You

COCHRANE a s s o c i a t e s

1995

ca-global.org

cochrane.org.uk

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