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Things Fall Together - A Guide to the New Materials Revolution (Hardcover)
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Things Fall Together - A Guide to the New Materials Revolution (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R538
Discovery Miles 5 380
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From the visionary founder of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, a
manifesto for the dawning age of active materials Things in life
tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair.
Personal items deteriorate. Yet today's researchers are exploiting
newly understood properties of matter to program materials that
physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These
materials open new directions for industrial innovation and
challenge us to rethink the way we build and collaborate with our
environment. Things Fall Together is a provocative guide to this
emerging, often mind-bending reality, presenting a bold vision for
harnessing the intelligence embedded in the material world. Drawing
on his pioneering work on self-assembly and programmable material
technologies, Skylar Tibbits lays out the core, frequently
counterintuitive ideas and strategies that animate this new
approach to design and innovation. From furniture that builds
itself to shoes printed flat that jump into shape to islands that
grow themselves, he describes how matter can compute and exhibit
behaviors that we typically associate with biological organisms,
and challenges our fundamental assumptions about what physical
materials can do and how we can interact with them. Intelligent
products today often rely on electronics, batteries, and
complicated mechanisms. Tibbits offers a different approach,
showing how we can design simple and elegant material intelligence
that may one day animate and improve itself-and along the way help
us build a more sustainable future. Compelling and beautifully
designed, Things Fall Together provides an insider's perspective on
the materials revolution that lies ahead, revealing the spectacular
possibilities for designing active materials that can
self-assemble, collaborate, and one day even evolve and design on
their own.
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