来自麻省理工学院自组装实验室的有远见的创始人，一份关于活性材料黎明时代的宣言
生活中的事情往往会分崩离析。汽车坏了。建筑物年久失修。个人物品会变质。然而，今天的研究人员正在利用最新了解的物质特性来编程材料，这些材料可以在物理上感知、适应并结合在一起，而不是分开。这些材料为工业创新开辟了新的方向，并向我们提出了挑战，要求我们重新思考我们构建和与环境合作的方式。《万物合而为一》是这一新兴的、往往令人费解的现实的一个具有挑衅性的指南，为利用物质世界中的智慧提供了一个大胆的愿景。
Skylar Tibbits借鉴了他在自组装和可编程材料技术方面的开创性工作，提出了核心的、经常违反直觉的想法和策略，为这种新的设计和创新方法注入了活力。他描述了物质如何计算和展示我们通常与生物有机体有关的行为，并挑战了我们关于物理材料可以做什么以及我们如何与它们相互作用的基本假设，从可以自行建造的家具，到可以跳跃成形的平印鞋，再到可以自行生长的岛屿。如今的智能产品通常依赖于电子产品、电池和复杂的机械装置。Tibbits提供了一种不同的方法，展示了我们如何设计出简单而优雅的材料智能，也许有一天会使其自身充满活力并不断完善“•并在这一过程中帮助我们构建一个更可持续的未来。
引人入胜、设计精美的《万物合一》（Things Fall Together）提供了业内人士对未来材料革命的看法，揭示了设计能够自组装、协作甚至有一天能够自行进化和设计的活性材料的惊人可能性。
Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution (True PDF)
From the visionary founder of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, a manifesto for the dawning age of active materials
Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today’s researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way we build and collaborate with our environment. Things Fall Together is a provocative guide to this emerging, often mind-bending reality, presenting a bold vision for harnessing the intelligence embedded in the material world.
Drawing on his pioneering work on self-assembly and programmable material technologies, Skylar Tibbits lays out the core, frequently counterintuitive ideas and strategies that animate this new approach to design and innovation. From furniture that builds itself to shoes printed flat that jump into shape to islands that grow themselves, he describes how matter can compute and exhibit behaviors that we typically associate with biological organisms, and challenges our fundamental assumptions about what physical materials can do and how we can interact with them. Intelligent products today often rely on electronics, batteries, and complicated mechanisms. Tibbits offers a different approach, showing how we can design simple and elegant material intelligence that may one day animate and improve itself”•and along the way help us build a more sustainable future.
Compelling and beautifully designed, Things Fall Together provides an insider’s perspective on the materials revolution that lies ahead, revealing the spectacular possibilities for designing active materials that can self-assemble, collaborate, and one day even evolve and design on their own.
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