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21st Century Innovation
Don’t Do It!
Making Things Happen
Overcoming Inertia
What Happens When We Digitize
Everything?
The End of Innovation?
iPhone 9 SRi
iPad 23 GXS
3 Opportunities
1 Challenge
Big Data
Control Over Materials
Materials Have Shaped Our Culture & Economy
10,000 BC
Stone & Wood
Nanotechnology
Adapted from Herrmann, W. Chem. Eng. Technol. 21(7), 549 (1998)
Synthetic Biology
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Cement Steel
1800
Iron
1000 BC 1900’s
Polymers
2000 2010
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Harnessing Nature
1.3Gb
“The 6.4*10 18 instructions per second that human kind can carry out on its general-purpose computers in 2007 are in the same ballpark area as the maximum number of nerve impulses executed by one human brain per second
“The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information.” Martin Hilbert and Priscila López. Science, 692-693, Feb. 11, 2011
Materials+ Life Sciences+ IT ???????
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Longest Published DNA Sequence
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Source: Rob Carlson synthesis.cc
Is It Just Smaller Faster Better Stuff?
Sustained & responsible technology innovation is the only way that the world has supported six billion people and will continue to sustain 9 billion people by 2050.
‣ WEF Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies
Addressing the Challenge
Is It Possible?
Finally
There is no shortage of technology
Look beyond ‘apps’
We have the tools, lets use them wisely
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