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So we built a device, which we call a puff-o-mat, in which we could deliver little brief air puffs to fruit flies in these plastic tubes in our laboratory bench and blow them away.

Thank you so much for coming to TED. (Applause) I have a friend in Portugal whose grandfather built a vehicle out of a bicycle and a washing machine so he could transport his family.

That attitude of only taking what you need was really what everybody had on the network in those days, and in fact, it wasn't just the people on the network, but it was actually kind of built into the protocols of the Internet itself.

So we've built this system where we understand all the parts of it, but we're using it in a very, very different way than we expected to use it, and it's gotten a very, very different scale than it was designed for.

And the problem with it is, I think we are setting ourselves up for a kind of disaster like the disaster we had in the financial system, where we take a system that's basically built on trust, was basically built for a smaller-scale system, and we've kind of expanded it way beyond the limits of how it was meant to operate.

So I think that, if people understand how much we're starting to depend on the Internet, and how vulnerable it is, we could get focused on just wanting this other system to exist, and I think if enough people say, "Yeah, I would like to use it, I'd like to have such a system," then it will get built.

So we built something.

And people said yes, and they built with these Legos.

People built one Bionicle after another.

And if they said yes, they built it.

And if they said yes, we gave them the one that they built and we broke.

There was a very nice correlation between the love of Legos and the amount of Legos people built.

And we had two types of people: We had the people who built it, and the people who did not build it, and just looked at it as external observers.

So I'd like to propose that we can combine those two worlds, that we can combine the world of the nanoscale programmable adaptive materials and the built environment.

So now I'm going to show you a number of projects that we've built, from one-dimensional, two-dimensional, three-dimensional and even four-dimensional systems.

And we built 500 of these glass beakers.

And then you shake it randomly and it starts to error correct and built the structure on its own.

Last year at TED Long Beach, we built an installation that builds installations.

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.

So I know you're probably thinking, okay, that's cool, but how do we use any of this stuff for the built environment?

And we're dedicated to trying to develop programmable materials for the built environment.

These are complex things built with complex parts that come together in complex ways.

This is actually something that one of our engineers, Dom, built in a weekend.

It's built on top of a Google open framework called Blockly.

And many countries are going to go brickless from the start because they're never going to be able to afford the mega-medicalplexes that a lot of the rest of the world has built.

Now the smartphones that we're already carrying can clearly have diagnostic devices like ultrasounds plugged into them, and a whole array of others, today, and as sensing is built into these, we'll be able to do vital signs monitor and behavioral monitoring like we've never had before.

Two models of his engine were built in the last 20 years by a team from the Science Museum of London using his own plans.

Tragically, Babbage's engines never were built in his day because most people thought that non-human computers would have no usefulness for the public.

I built things in a time-graphics dimension.

In just a matter of a few weeks, an undergraduate student of mine built an app that ultimately reached 1.3 million users.

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