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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