The Design Museum: The Future Is here

The Future is Here A New Industrial Revolution was the exhibition shown at the Design Museum which amazed me as we are living in a world which is surrounded by technology evolving rapidly in the way every day objects are made, designed which affects commerce industries and our own lives. 

RepRap desktop 3D printer 

Through out the exhibition I was stunned at the growth of technology over time, upon entering the exhibition I had seen a time line of technology being discovered such as the first telephone being created to the birth of modern computing. Whilst viewing the exhibition I was starting to think with technology such as 3D printers and Robotics digital production would be heavily effected. Would I need to visit retail shops anymore if 3D printers created clothing or personalised items constantly, manufacturing industries would be heavily effected with the use of Robotics, I could visualise a world literally without jobs as the use of Robotics would result in the non-use of humans working machinery. I admit I was slightly afraid of what the future holds yet still amazed.

Robotic worker arm

What caught my attention most was Robotics, I was able to see a Robotic worker arm in action repeatedly carrying out the task of placing wooden slabs on top of one another with such accuracy and simplicity in a quick pace. It is known that robots are commonly used in manufacturing as worker robots, just witnessing this being carried out with my own eyes amazed me. Another form of robotics was designed by Dirk Vander Kooij in which he created an automated process of a robot creating a range of furniture using plastic pellets from a recycled refrigerator. This is a process titled The Endless Process in which an object is created by a single continuous strand of plastic. I thought this was mind blowing as this is something which can create furniture without any form of human interaction.  

The Endless Process

1. Chubby chair
2. Flow Open rocking chair