How 4 Elements Will Transform Our Relationship To Things... - Chris Yonge @ TEDxSantaCruz

Chris Yonge talks about what open products look like and how when we change our relationship to things we change our relationship to ourselves.

This TEDxSantaCruz talk is one of 16 surrounding our theme of "Open" at the second full-day TEDxSantaCruz event held September 15, 2012 at the Cabrillo College Crocker Theater in Aptos, CA (Santa Cruz County). http://www.tedxsantacruz.org/

Chris graduated as an architect in 1978 before becoming a furniture designer/maker and running a successful studio for ten years in Scotland. Moving to the US he became a product designer in North Carolina and California before becoming ever more fascinated by the potential of 3D digital modeling, animation, and production. He is now a partner in MakersFactory, a Santa Cruz company that uses 3D printing and visualization to help innovators and artists produce their ideas. Chris also teaches animation at the School of Engineering in UC Santa Cruz using the open source program Blender.

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[wbaltzley]

A Digital Matter Net would do for 3D Printers what the Internet did for computers...personal manufacturing could become a truly powerful force in industry, paving the way for entirely new products and services the world has never seen before.

[wbaltzley]

Your printer might very well contain a "Matter Digitizer" that can break down garbage and transform it into nano-particles you can use to print an object on site. However, using the "Matter Net" you could digitally send that same object...as particles and instructions for assembly...to someone who lives a thousand miles away.

[zzz43452]

By the time such net is needed, we will have biomechanics on level, where we will literally feed our printer random trash and it will print us what we want.

[wbaltzley]

Digital Printers are only the beginning...I am predicting the formation of a digital "Matter-Net" in which raw materials are converted to nano-particles and transported at high speed over microscopic channels to be printed into a final product at the other end.

I have even built a wordpress blog to help stir discussion and promote the development of this technology: digitalmatternet.worpress.com

[Steve Terry]

Yes. This is where the future of manufacturing lies.