Josh Wolfe, Lux Capital co-founder and managing director, speaks with Real Vision about how 3D printing, virtual reality and the evolution of mathematical applications are bringing equality to the global economy.
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I mean, and today, the technology, and this is actually a really crazy thing. There are tools, like something called generative design. This to me is one of the most important areas of technology that I want my kids to understand. In the 80's, I remember my mother, she wanted me to learn golf and Japanese because those were the language of business. And I didn't do either. And today, it's Mandarin and coding. And all I know is that in 10 years, it will be something totally
different that parents are prescribing that just won't really matter.
Generative design is a not well understood application of technology where I basically say, Mike, I need a hinge for a door and it's got to go from this to this angle. And, you know, do you have that in-stock? And you're going to say no. Well, now I can actually go to the computer program and it can generate, mathematically, it can evolve looking at all the different possibility spaces. And looking at the constraints, and the weight, and the price that I'm willing to pay, and the material design. And the computer program will basically evolve the part. And then you can print that. What that means is that, we're going to basically be putting in the problem. The computer is going to be designing the thing that normally would look like these plutonic solids in geometric shape. And the world is going to start to look more like HR Giger and this flowy architecture as opposed
to the rigid structures that we have. And I think that's also going to be profound just in design, and architecture, and building, and product making.
Well, that's a-- I'm mean, that's a classic challenge, right? I mean why are houses built the way they're built? Because right angles are very easy for unskilled laborers.
And two by fours are easy to produce and consistent, yeah. Absolutely.
All those-- all that begins to change in the world that you think is a relatively in your head.
And not only in your head, but I think you're starting to see it in small forms. This hinge is an example. There's a part for BMW that's being made by one of our companies up in Boston called Desktop Metal, which produces 3D printed metal. And it looks like it's out of an alien movie. It looks like Gaudi would have designed it. I mean it's organic, it's flowing. Which makes sense, right? I mean mother nature and evolution designed all kinds of complex structures but they don't
look anything like these right angled, you know, platonic solids.
