Innovation without Ego
David Kirkpatrick and Autodesk’s Andrew Anagnost Discuss Why Keeping Egos in Check is Good for Tech Today—and Tomorrow.
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Autodesk CEO: Automation is Inevitable, Necessary, and Positive
Speaking to a group of technologists, investors, journalists, and entrepreneurs convened by Techonomy, Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost made the case that software and automation are creating more possibilities for society than they are taking away...
Contradictions Abound in Public Opinions about Genetics
People are so opposed to GMOs that such food has often been banned, though studies find zero evidence it harms people. But paradoxically, when it comes to editing human genomes, many are eager to press...
Five Ways AR and VR Will Improve Our Current Reality
A flood of investments into the new tools of reality continues to fuel innovation. Virtual and augmented reality, from the original Google Glass to the latest Oculus Rift, has continually shaped the technology market,and will...
I Love Detroit
It’s been amazing to watch the change in Detroit the past four years. In late 2011 when we started thinking about organizing a conference in Detroit, even Detroiters thought we were a little nuts. Eventually...
Technologies and Trends that Let Small Designers Make Stuff Locally
While most of the world is yet to be enlightened as to how 3D printing will change manufacturing, Autodesk CEO Carl Bass is already talking about its limitations, and why biological manufacturing is the industry’s...
Innovating Tools for Quantifying the Self, and Future Self
The quantified-self movement is rapidly moving beyond the Fitbit. Forget about wristbands to measure your vitals. DIYers known as Grinders are embedding electronics in their own bodies; transcranial direct-current stimulation experimentalists are putting wet sponges...
Dassault Systèmes’ 3D “Living Heart” May Transform Diagnosis and Treatment
The day is coming when “electronic health record” doesn't mean just a digital transcript of doctors’ notes about exams and tests, but a three-dimensional digital model of your entire anatomy. The first version of such...
Using Software to Program the Building Blocks of Life
“What’s beautiful about software is that it makes complex jobs easy,” opines Andrew Hessel, a distinguished researcher at Autodesk, the software company best known for the design software, AutoCAD. What’s really beautiful about what Hessel...