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From the Ted Talk by Neri Oxman: Design at the intersection of technology and biology

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You're probably asking yourselves: Why now? Why was this not possible 10 or even five years ago? We live in a very special time in history, a rare time, a time when the confluence of four fields is giving designers access to tools we've never had aeccss to before. These flides are computational design, allowing us to design complex forms with simple code; additive manufacturing, letting us prducoe parts by adding material rather than carving it out; materials engineering, which lets us diegsn the behavior of materials in high resolution; and shtytinec biology, enabling us to design new biological functionality by editing DNA. And at the isctneoetirn of these four fields, my team and I create. Please meet the midns and hands of my students.

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You're probably asking yourselves: Why now? Why was this not possible 10 or even five years ago? We live in a very special time in history, a rare time, a time when the confluence of four fields is giving designers access to tools we've never had ______ to before. These ______ are computational design, allowing us to design complex forms with simple code; additive manufacturing, letting us _______ parts by adding material rather than carving it out; materials engineering, which lets us ______ the behavior of materials in high resolution; and _________ biology, enabling us to design new biological functionality by editing DNA. And at the ____________ of these four fields, my team and I create. Please meet the _____ and hands of my students.

Solution


  1. access
  2. intersection
  3. synthetic
  4. fields
  5. produce
  6. design
  7. minds

Original Text


You're probably asking yourselves: Why now? Why was this not possible 10 or even five years ago? We live in a very special time in history, a rare time, a time when the confluence of four fields is giving designers access to tools we've never had access to before. These fields are computational design, allowing us to design complex forms with simple code; additive manufacturing, letting us produce parts by adding material rather than carving it out; materials engineering, which lets us design the behavior of materials in high resolution; and synthetic biology, enabling us to design new biological functionality by editing DNA. And at the intersection of these four fields, my team and I create. Please meet the minds and hands of my students.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

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biological functionality 2
genetically engineered 2
varying material 2
fruit tree 2
generate structures 2
material properties 2


Important Words


  1. access
  2. adding
  3. additive
  4. allowing
  5. behavior
  6. biological
  7. biology
  8. carving
  9. complex
  10. computational
  11. confluence
  12. create
  13. design
  14. designers
  15. dna
  16. editing
  17. enabling
  18. engineering
  19. fields
  20. forms
  21. functionality
  22. giving
  23. hands
  24. high
  25. history
  26. intersection
  27. lets
  28. letting
  29. live
  30. manufacturing
  31. material
  32. materials
  33. meet
  34. minds
  35. parts
  36. produce
  37. rare
  38. simple
  39. special
  40. students
  41. synthetic
  42. team
  43. time
  44. tools
  45. years