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Innovation and radical truth In an environment where innovation is the driving force, you need a space that allows for inspiration, ideation, and implementation.
W e are quickly entering a new era. And it comes with new problems. A small glimpse can be seen in the shift 3-D printing is producing in the AEC world. For architects, it is allowing clients to better visualize your design, reduce the hours spent creating models, and it begins creating a library of reusable designs. In engineering, it is allowing for the production of significantly more complex structures than traditional manufacturing methods allow. China is even producing entire houses with giant 3-D printers. It allows designers to experiment with geometries that may not have been an economically viable option in the past. The advancement of material science seems to be the limit for the moment and is one of the most important areas for innovation in 3-D printing.
Phil Keil
The New York Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari has an interesting take in his new book, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow : “While the industrial revolution created the working class, the next big revolution will create the useless class.” Others such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have warned about what the rise of AI will mean. This has led to a cornucopia of articles
on how to handle the job loss and humanity’s “merging with machines.” The world was stagnant for a long time and now the rapid rate of technological advancement can seem to catch a lot of us off guard. But there are a few foundational principles that can help you
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THE ZWEIG LETTER July 24, 2017, ISSUE 1209
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