The University of California, San Diego, late dedicated a one-of-a-kind building, which is domicile to structural engineers, nanoengineers, medical device researchers too visual artists. Best-selling scientific discipline fiction writer too UC San Diego alumnus David Brin was the keynote speaker at the effect too imagined about of the futurity discoveries engineers too artists volition brand past times working hand-in-hand.
Brin is especially good suited for this exercise. He has won both the prestigious Nebula too Hugo awards for scientific discipline fiction writing too equally good earned a Ph.D. inward physics from UC San Diego inward 1981.
The edifice volition assist heal the split upwardly described past times philosopher C. P. Snow fifty years agone betwixt the academic civilization of the difficult sciences too the arts too humanities, Brin said. “This edifice volition thrive because its cells are leaky, its structures malleable too adaptable to changing needs—deliberately nearly biological,” he said.
He equally good described about of the amazing discoveries that he believes volition come upwardly out of query inside the novel building. Researchers volition do a basis where real smart materials volition allow your shoes, your shirt, your dinner plate to actively response to your will, Brin predicted.“Problem solvers inside these walls volition post robots into the bloodstream too mysterious nonlinear realms inside the cell,” Brin said. “New operate inward fluidics, materials too battery storage volition assist us tackle vexing liberate energy problems.” Watch Brin's speech: