{"id":2521,"date":"2018-03-16T14:49:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T18:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2018-03-16T14:49:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T18:49:54","slug":"what-we-like-this-week-031618","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/what-we-like-this-week-031618\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Like This Week: Wooden Airplanes and Instant Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Mouncey Ferguson<\/p>\n<p>Advanced materials,\u00a0solid employment advice for\u00a0kids, and a\u00a0hip\u00a0new incubator for manufacturing startups\u2014that\u2019s what caught our eye this week.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li><b>T<\/b><b>he 3D-printed life.\u00a0<\/b>We\u2019re pretty sure it starts\u00a0with\u00a0living in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1227301\/sxsw-2018-affordable-3d-printed-houses-from-icon-and-charity-new-story-debuted-in-austin\/%20https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/home\/icon-newstory-3d-printed-homes\/%20d\">3D-printed house<\/a>\u00a0(that can be made in a day, according to Quartz). When you get\u00a0cabin fever, hit the road in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.curbed.com\/2018\/3\/12\/17108382\/3d-printed-camper-trailer-saskatoon\">3D-printed trailer<\/a>. When even that becomes too much,\u00a0split for the hills, lose your way,\u00a0and\u00a0get\u00a0saved\u00a0by a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/3dprint.com\/206158\/uav-mountain-rescue-efforts\/\">3D-printed rescue drone<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_2523\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/03\/3d-printed-house-sxsw-austin1-credit-new-story-icon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2523\" class=\"wp-image-2523 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/03\/3d-printed-house-sxsw-austin1-credit-new-story-icon-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/03\/3d-printed-house-sxsw-austin1-credit-new-story-icon-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/03\/3d-printed-house-sxsw-austin1-credit-new-story-icon-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/03\/3d-printed-house-sxsw-austin1-credit-new-story-icon-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/03\/3d-printed-house-sxsw-austin1-credit-new-story-icon.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: New Story \/ Icon<\/p><\/div>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li><b>Jet planes made of wood?<\/b>\u00a0Maybe now it can finally happen, thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eng.umd.edu\/news\/story\/super-wood-could-replace-steel\">this research<\/a>\u00a0from engineers at the University of Maryland, College Park,\u00a0that\u00a0made\u00a0wood as hard as steel. (Thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.architectmagazine.com\/technology\/this-week-in-tech-super-wood-that-could-replace-steel_o\">Architect Magazine for the find<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><b>Work it<\/b><b>.\u00a0<\/b>We liked this frank conversation with\u00a0two\u00a0labor economists who co-authored an important\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/bpea-articles\/is-automation-labor-displacing-productivity-growth-employment-and-the-labor-share\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosfutureofwork&amp;stream=future-of-work\">Brookings Institute paper<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0work in the\u00a0world of\u00a0increasing\u00a0automation.\u00a0Perhaps the best part was the\u00a0advice\u00a0for\u00a0children if\u00a0they want a\u00a0good\u00a0job in the future.\u00a0(Nod to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/newsletters\/axios-future-of-work-9f55b4cd-03c9-46d8-b9c8-da65d816e443.html\">Axios: The Future of Work<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0this\u00a0link.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><i>\u201cIf I were a parent, which I am, and I gave advice, and hypothetically my kids listened to me, I would recommend that they choose a career that draws on a body of expertise, something that requires judgment and creativity.\u00a0<\/i><i>That could be medicine, it could be law, it could be design, it could be managing other people.<\/i><i>\u00a0Then compliment that expertise with e<\/i><i>xpertise in human interactions.<\/i><i>\u201d<\/i><i>\u00a0\u2013 David\u00a0<\/i><i>Autor<\/i><i>, Labor Economist<\/i><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No, robots won\u2019t take all the jobs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SrprBJf7Nd4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li><b>AI on the make.\u00a0<\/b>More products\u00a0to produce\u00a0and tighter delivery\u00a0windows\u2014how do manufacturers\u00a0make it happen?\u00a0With machine learning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/louiscolumbus\/2018\/03\/11\/10-ways-machine-learning-is-revolutionizing-manufacturing-in-2018\/#3b3d202523ac\">according to Forbes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Everyone likes PIE.\u00a0<\/b>Something\u2019s happening in Portland, OR other than rain, great coffee, and the next\u00a0cool pair of Nike sneakers.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/portland\/news\/2018\/03\/07\/autodesk-pie-uncorked-studios-team-upon-new.html\">The Portland Incubator Experiment Shop has opened<\/a>\u00a0(with support from Autodesk) to guide manufacturing startups through the prototyping and manufacturing phases of their product. They\u2019re\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/12QH00rdx0l9yslgpC3s65VLMPPfj7S0oI73ORQNZYyw\/viewform?edit_requested=true\">looking for companies<\/a>\u00a0that can have a product ready for fabrication in 6-12 months. The first cohort starts in May.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mouncey Ferguson<\/p>\n<p>Advanced materials,\u00a0solid employment advice for\u00a0kids, and a\u00a0hip\u00a0new incubator for manufacturing startups\u2014that\u2019s what caught our eye this week.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li>The 3D-printed life.\u00a0We\u2019re pretty sure it starts\u00a0with\u00a0living in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1227301\/sxsw-2018-affordable-3d-printed-houses-from-icon-and-charity-new-story-debuted-in-austin\/%20https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/home\/icon-newstory-3d-printed-homes\/%20d\">3D-printed house<\/a>\u00a0(that can be made in a day,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[266,631,540,625,526],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-future-of-making-things","tag-3d-printing","tag-advanced-materials","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-future-of-work","tag-product-development"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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