Networks as Structure/Material (Placeholder Post)

I watched the following video over the weekend and thought I would post it up here. These guys are doing amazing stuff and meta-materials are interesting in their own right.

For me, I’ve long considered that networks also have architectural and structural properties and potential which we currently have little understanding of.

If we did then we might find that they are most intelligent material yet invented. We’re just not thinking of them or applying them in the right way.

I’ve written a few posts which touch on this topic and I’ll add a few links after the video below. Sorry there’s quite a lot and there’s a lot of variation.

Maybe one day I’ll tidy all this up…

How can we design simple and elegant intelligent materials, that may one day animate and improve themselves?

Posts related to network; structure/material/architectural properties

Fit for Purpose: Networks and Health Checks

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‘Everything, Everywhere’ — Part 1 (all the walls are coming Down)

Posts related to networks and ecosystems

‘Everything, Everywhere’ — Part 1 (all the walls are coming Down)

‘Everything, Everywhere’ — Part 2 (collaboration and cooperation)

‘Everything, Everywhere’ — Part 3 (a hidden kingdom)

When we change the way we look at something, what we look at changes…

All that is solid melts into air…

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The Realm of the Red Queen and the Dawn of the New Enlightenment

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