Industrial Revolution

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of flight isn’t just supersonic, it’s hypersonic, and a new British hypersonic engine…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Getting food into orbit is expensive, and most of the food is dubious anyway, but…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today’s plastics can’t be recycled forever because of the way they’re made and the way…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 3D printing improves sustainability, lets us print products on demand and eliminate global supply chains,…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Clean meat, real meat that is produced in the same way animals produce meat but…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today’s electronics are static, but tomorrow’s electronics will be able to re-configure themselves automatically as…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The ability to change products colours and patterns dynamically opens up a whole new range…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Magnetic liquids could open up a whole host of interesting applications, most of which we…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Feeding the world’s growing population is one of the great challenges of our time, but…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Advances in new materials, production techniques and company processes mean we increasingly have a way…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When electronic systems are manufactured today they’re fixed forever, but in the future they’ll be…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We adapt to the weather by changing our clothes, but in the future our clothes…