Cases in experimentation driving creativity producing innovations is nothing new until material experimentation becomes frictionless. Then what ?
With the nascent world of EAAS - Experimentation As A Service software as well as the physical systems connected to EAAS environments to accomplish tabula rosa experimental directions, a new horizon has opened as to how rapid iteration, the past limiting factor of discovery, becomes not the norm, but an entirely new avenue of creativity. In examples such as firms experimenting and exploring the cutting edge of nano-technology ( as in the case of Liquid-Metal Artificial Eye[s in ] Machine Vision ) we see entire platforms dedicated to alternative material construction methods, and in a way similar to a chef in a kitchen, where physical nano-scale manufacturing solutions can be rapidly reconfigured and then manufactured with the accompanying support technology to interact with what is manufactured, included. This means the physical and the digital world converging due to readily reconfigurable environments.
The ability to rapidly change the necessary control structures and mechanics necessary for massive object manufacturing at the 1 meter level and where we all live and breathe today, the idea experimentation we have in our current layer of physical being means resource constraint is the time limiting factor to advances in unexpected physical materials development. When material experimentation moved into an almost 10 orders of magnitude smaller this means material experimentation resources ( the machines necessary to do said experimentation ) become ( initially ) harder to produce but when controllable, allows for almost instant experimentation and outcome resolution because of the almost frictionless experimentation avenues allotted to not having to produce incredibly resource intensive manufacturing systems - once the systems are in place to make the machines that do the manufacturing, experimentation becomes almost instantaneous.
When the process of manufacturing the physical machines that themselves are able to enable rapid experimentation becomes, not less complex but less costly, the capability of creativity increases due to an unlimited supply of building materials. In this case at the nano level. Further described in The Role Of AI In Experimental Materials Science and where the same principals of Zero Marginal Cost and Infinite Iteration take effect, we see environments where rapid end choice structures for innovation begin to take hold in the after steps. This can be via highly restrictive patenting behaviors by individuals and organizations capable of engaging in such efforts, or by automatic systems that can prioritize and rank ablative defense stratifies for new product development or any number of new and novel ways to corral what has been experimented on. Scale literally is almost a button push away.
Firms, organizations and individuals adopting such systems and strategies create a natural moats around areas of experimentation that they are focusing on, much in the same way that matrix organizations are able to compartmentalize business unit around specific areas of profit and loss sometimes necessary to deliver new product development efforts. The interactions between these areas of expertise are able to interact with each other in an almost API - Advance Program Interface - manner and thus, interoperability also becomes almost frictionless.
Where previously the resource constraints of physical and electrical systems ( and in the case of electrical power grids to deliver electricity or in an always on environment ) severely again limited in the range of experimentations that can take place, in the example of materials development ( and particularly at the nano-level ) we see the rapid development of molecular and atomic level of experimentation with self feeding raw material environments. Any and all of the materials necessary for experimentation and production all in one place at one time.
This narrowing of an almost universal system for manufacturing is possible due to the scalar nature of the machines and systems that are emerging, and in the cases above, due to infinite work via Ai software development tools as well as at the nano-manufacturing level, infinite production, again, allows for the expansion of the field of alternative use cases for new materials development. Where there is new materials development there is instant new materials manufacturing capabilities and the software necessary to accomplish said manufacturing.
We see this further in the case of today, non stop content creation the help of AI where the previous limitations to usable and readable text, ideas, images, etc., was limited by the amount of highly trained people with the capability to communicate complex topics into easily digestible formats and produce images that correspond with this and or raw creative output that is then charged to and paid for by end users. The same then ( and in an case of nano-manufacturing ) happens to experimentation in manufacturing materials when the cost to develop nano-machinery almost also falls to zero. Firms pursuing this include 3D metal manufacturing firms at the standard 1 meter every day level however in the field of medical device manufacturing at the nano and molecular level. The new frontier for things like artificial biological systems that produce image processing and capture systems infinitely easier to produce than the time consuming and raw materials necessary image processing components of today.
Firms and organizations that are able to leverage the power of strategies of infinite material experimentation in terms of digital output and certainly in the case of digital and code focused environments have already see the almost instantaneous benefits that come from said material innovation and now with EAAS - Experimentation As A Service physical laboratories coming online the same has moved into the physical world. Organizations that are rapidly reconfiguring themselves to capture this type of value are also evolving at a much more rapid pace than ever before and squarely due to the idea that with infinite reconfigurable building blocks the idea that there is more than one way to skin a cat ( as the saying goes ) itself becomes moot with almost infinite cats that can be produced and while preserving the capability of intellectual property ownership protections.
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