I don’t think it’s going to be necessarily a problem within the next five to ten, fifteen, to maybe even twenty years. But my perspective on it has always been, because I am more philosophically focused in these things, why not try to address the issues before they arrive? Why not try to think about these questions before they become problems that we have to fix?
Mindful Cyborgs
Mindful Cyborgs #69 — Materials Science & Plastic-making Bees with Deb Chachra
presented by Deb Chachra, Klint Finley, Sara M. Watson
Designers do spend a fair bit of time thinking about what materials to use, but they don’t necessarily think about why those materials have the properties that they have.