Engineering Why Ready Player One Is a Beautiful Prophecy for the Future of VR Collaboration by Andrew Anagnost Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One is a prophecy for the future of VR collaboration: New generations will seek work that merges the physical and virtual to help them design and make a better world.
Manufacturing What a Big Leap Forward in Humanoid Robot Design Could Mean for the Human Body by Friederike Voigt Roboy 2.0 is a nonprofit international project with the aim to create a humanoid robot that achieves the closest possible human likeness using generative design and 3D printing.
Construction How One UK Company Is Taking on the Skilled-Labor Shortage in Construction by Elizabeth Rosselle To address the growing skilled-labor shortage in construction-related fields, one UK company is taking a “modernize or die” approach: Proactively change public perception to draw new talent.
Manufacturing The Race Is on in Japan to Build a Space Elevator Through Open Innovation by Yasuo Matsunaka Another space race is happening—one without rockets: the space elevator. In Japan, concepts for this vehicle are being developed, and the finish line to the final frontier is within reach.
Infrastructure Bogotá’s Metro Project Elevates the Ideals of Urban Transportation Planning by Zach Mortice Bogotá, Colombia’s metro project is a model of urban transportation planning, promising to serve 65,000 riders per hour—welcome relief in the traffic-choked metropolis of 8 million.
Manufacturing 6 Mobility Design Innovations That Will Change Everyday Lives by Rosa Trieu The field of mobility design is bursting with innovations—such as wheelchairs benefitting from generative design and advanced graphene—for making the disabled and elderly more independent.
Manufacturing Exploring the Industry 4.0 Manufacturing Narrative With a Trip Around the World by Peter Dorfman “Industry 4.0” is an oft-used term, but what does it mean? Look into the present and future of global manufacturing with a management consultant whose world tour yielded surprising insights.
Architecture WeWork’s Nic Rader on Space-as-a-Service Business Models Reshaping Office Design by Jeff Link WeWork’s space-as-a-service business model tackles office design for companies of all sizes. Here, designer Nic Rader shares what data-driven future workplaces might look like—for all.
Manufacturing Could a Synthetic Brain Make Manufacturing Automation Accessible for All? by Massimiliano Moruzzi Corporate domination of manufacturing can come to end only when all would-be manufacturers with an idea have access to automation. The key to this democratization could be a synthetic brain.
