But probably the most remarkable thing is that it comes full circle.

But I mean programmable materials that build themselves.

And we gave them away to all the TEDsters.

It organizes itself.

I'm going to try to go through 12, really quickly.

The answer lies in something called self assembly.

We also worked with Autodesk on a software they're developing called Project Cyborg.

So nature has this self similar structure.

And there's many of them, all over its entire body.

And I think the key to that is self assembly.

liquid molecules around itself, and that's shown in green here on this micrograph.

These are robust algorithms.

Now, you've heard about this in terms of nanotechnology.

And we could easily reproduce the TNC network with a few simple rules.

There are such areas, but anyway, I'd never heard that anywhere else.

And when you got interest then you have education.

So we're able to then see the self assembly of these oil droplet bodies again that we've seen previously, and the black spots inside of there represent this kind of black tar this diverse, very complex, organic black tar.

It's a pool of water, and the protocell starts moving itself around in the system.

And on, and on, and on, there are over 80 of these auto immune diseases.

Then, they sprayed stem cells onto that heart, from a mouse.

Self assembly is being used as a new design, science, and engineering tool for making the next generation of technologies easier to build, more adaptive, and less reliant on fossil fuels.

I think I can make a guess now Education is a self organizing system where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

It's also in some bad things.

Proteins are like bicycle chains with sequences of amino acid links.

It's actually part of a very long story, a great story, that began billions of years ago.

The possibilities are endless and it's now up to us to design a better world through self assembly.

Self organization is why the AlDS virus is spreading so fast.

So the recipe is simple you take the silk solution, you pour it, and you wait for the protein to self assemble.

They didn't know that the same thing was happening.

I think we've just stumbled across as self organizing system. A self organizing system is one where a structure appears without explicit intervention from the outside.

As you know, when you put oil and water together, they don't mix, but through self assembly we can get a nice oil droplet to form, and we can actually use this as a body for our artificial organism or for our protocell, as you will see later.

He gives them a platform he gives them some rules he gives them the tools and then he kind of orchestrates the conversation he orchestrates the action.

And out of that, you get the need for the kind of things that Jimmy was talking about, which is our new kinds of organization, or a better way to put it how do we organize ourselves without organizations?

The Four Horsemen are Coming!

You've got the red hat triathletes over there.

So we built a large rotating chamber, and people would come up and spin the chamber faster or slower, adding energy to the system and getting an intuitive understanding of how self assembly works and how we could use this as a macroscale construction or manufacturing technique for products.

The origins and roots of technology go back to the Big Bang, in this way, in that they are part of this self organizing thread that starts at the Big Bang and goes through galaxies and stars, into life, into us.

Institutions hate being told they're obstacles.

And we call that a gal stripping technique.

But we're not organized.

I believe that soon our buildings and machines will be self assembling, replicating and repairing themselves.

Our entire facility is comprised of thousands and thousands and thousands of these tools sitting indoors in the dark, quietly self assembling materials and everything from building materials to, in this case, a packaging corner block.

And what parts of the seed husk we don't digest, actually become part of the final, physical composite.

This is one of those signals that the immune system sees in patients who have a disease called type 1 diabetes.

It turns out that making a precise sphere through traditional means is actually quite difficult.