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自上世纪七十年代以来，三维打印已经得到了长足的发展，而Skylar Tibbits正致力于塑造未来的发展方向——四维打印, 所谓的第四维就是时间. 这种新兴技术将会让我们打印出可以自我重塑或者自我组装的物体。想象一下吧：一个打印出来的立方体在你眼前完成自我折叠，或者一条打印出来的管道可以根据需要自我膨胀或者收缩。
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n. 极端，极限
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- So I know you're probably thinking, okay, that's cool,
- 我知道大家现在大概会想，好吧，看着挺酷的，
- but how do we use any of this stuff for the built environment?
- 但是我们怎么把它应用到生产环境里？
- So I've started a lab at MIT, and it's called the Self-Assembly Lab.
- 我在MIT（美国麻省理工学院）开展了一个实验室，它叫做“自我组装实验室”。
- We're dedicated to trying to develop programmable materials for the built environment.
- 我们致力于为实际生产环境开发可程序化的材料。
- And we think there's a few key sectors that have fairly near-term applications.
- 我们认为有几个关键部分它们可以在相当短期内得到应用。
- One of those is in extreme environments.
- 其中之一就是在极限环境下。
- These are scenarios where it's difficult to build, our current construction techniques don't work,
- 有些情况是建造起来非常困难，我们现有的建造技术行不通的，
- it's too large, it's too dangerous, it's expensive, too many parts.
- 它太大，太危险，太昂贵，太庞杂。
- And space is a great example of that.
- 太空就是一个非常好的例子。
- We're trying to design new scenarios for space that have fully reconfigurable
- 我们正在为太空环境设计新的可以完全重置和自我组装的结构，
- and self-assembly structures that can go from highly functional systems from one to another.
- 它们可以自我转化成各种功能强大的系统。
- Let's go back to infrastructure. In infrastructure, we're working with a company out of Boston called Geosyntec.
- 我们再回到基础设施建设。在这个领域，我们正和波士顿一家叫Geosyntec的公司合作。
- And we're developing a new paradigm for piping.
- 正在开发一种新的管道模板。
- Imagine if water pipes could expand or contract to change capacity or change flow rate,
- 想象一下如果水管可以膨胀或者收缩来改变容积、改变流量、
- or maybe even undulate like peristaltics to move the water themselves.
- 它甚至可以自己起伏蠕动来传输水。
- So this isn't expensive pumps or valves. This is a completely programmable and adaptive pipe on its own.
- 这就不需要昂贵的水泵或者水阀了。这是一个完全可程序化和自我调节的管道。
- So I want to remind you today of the harsh realities of assembly in our world.
- 我今天想要提醒大家的是——当今残酷的组装现实。
- These are complex things built with complex parts that come together in complex ways.
- 这些庞杂的集合体是用复杂的零件以繁复的方式组装起来的。
- So I would like to invite you from whatever industry you're from to join us in reinventing and reimagining the world,
- 所以，我真诚的邀请大家，不管你们来自哪个领域，和我们一起重塑和重新想象这个世界，
- how things come together from the nanoscale to the human scale,
- 怎样将微观纳米世界和宏观人类生活的事物结合在一起，
- so that we can go from a world like this to a world that's more like this.
- 从而，我们可以从这样一个世界过渡到一个更类似于这样的世界。
- Thank you.
- 谢谢大家。
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