Works in Progress

Harnessing new materials is a core engine of progress. Every material we use had to be invented and scaled at some point. You can read more about how materials leave the lab and enter mass production in this piece by @Ben_Reinhardt: https://t.co/ZAOjDtwkOV

Perhaps strengthening intellectual property could bring back industrial R&D labs like Bell Labs by encouraging companies to fund speculative research. New biology-inspired materials with the ability to self-repair or be fine-tuned as they’re manufactured could avoid bottlenecks.