Bio-informed Innovation with Singularity Expert Robert Suarez

And then look at any of the big headlines right now.

And I live in California and we just had these terrible fires.

I live in fire country, so I think about this a lot.

The way we, Alex and I, she asked me about this a while ago.

If I could change one thing, it would be the built environment.

So there's areas where we need to be applying this now as an experimental R&D to see how we can make homes more resilient.

And that changes insurance, that changes finance.

It really scales out, as we see in LA, if we could make our homes, not even livelihoods and families, right? We can affect all those outer circles all the way up into insurance if we build differently.

We just haven't questioned our home designs, our home building, our home materials,

right? Yeah.

I mean, that's something that at the very beginning is cool to see with companies like Icon where they're 3D printing buildings.

I mean, they're using... fairly standard kind of concrete-based materials.

So there's a lot of materials design and engineering that can be done still.

But the construction industry in general has a lot of room for innovation.

And I like that this connection between biology and the physical world, like the built environments, the real space, because you think... a lot of people think a lot of times about innovation as tech.

And there is so much application area in, or sorry, but not tech, but digital, right? And there's so much application of technology and innovation and new thinking in the physical world that I think has, I think everyone can probably agree, is for the most part lagged behind the digital space.

And so getting back to that, to actually improve our quality of lives, our economies, our communities, all the things that we really care about, right? Because we care about, Being good at business, but in most cases, being good at businesses or our jobs is the end result goal is that we improve our families, our lives, our communities.

So being able to tackle that at the ground level is, I think, a really exciting thing and a big piece of where this type of thinking can come into play.

I love that.

All right, awesome.

But let's jump into the questions, Alex.

What do we got?

So one of the questions was about, well, how is bio-informed innovation intersecting with 3D printing or advances in 3D printing? Then about, well, what about the AI and quantum energy needs? So, you know, those are two sort of like...

different directionally, but sort of like we see these interplays of different technologies.

Could you speak a bit more to some of the sort of like maybe most explicit interactions that you see coming out of this space with the other technologies that we study at Singularity?