Anything on his 3d pinters. And Chris Anderson was so enamored with this technologies that he just resigned his journalist job to become ceo of the 3d robotics. Well have his take later on in the show. Then well take a look at what is happening in retail. Were not talking about black friday or cyber monday. The founder of joyous. Com has a new way to attract shoppers online. And finally if you need to leave your desk and go somewhere there is an app for that. slick car service for everyone, and here to tell us how it works. But first we start with auto desk ceo carl bass. Welcome on the show. Thank you. This is one of the ubiquitous companies in this country that people know little about. We make software for design and engineering foreentertainment. So our software is used to design cars, design medical products design most of the buildings in the built infrastructure, and probably least wellknown is that our software is used to make movies and games. When you talk about movies, games and buildings some of the most iconic design in cars, technology give us example of some of the partnerships that you have that people may recognize. Sure, almost every video game in movies, avatar, working with jim cameron. Were working on avatar 2 with him. If you look at visual effects. Every year there are five nominees, and weve one of the five nominees have been our customers. I was in china recently on top of one of the towers and there is one of the guys who run our operations in china. All of this was designed using our software. So its architects, the engineers and creative folks in all of these companies. How Broad International youve got a portfolio that spans i would imagine not just United States companies. As a matter of fact 75 of our business is outside of the United States. If you want to understand it, mostly our revenue and our business is where the gdp is. Where there is economic activity, where people are building designing and manufacturing things thats where we are. Youre also in another area of the economy that is getting a lot of attention manufacturing particularly 3d printing. We have a number of things that you brought in and people are wondering what the heck is sitting on the table. One of them is a speaker that you printed. It sounds so extraordinary. You had this printed out software, that allowed you to send a file to a printer machine like we would print out a document, instead printed this out. Absolutely true. People have to pause. Some people say 3d printing, yeah sure, i know what that is. So tell me. And they really dont know. Its this incredible process. Its been under development for years, but it has really hit this Tipping Point recently where it has become affordable and accessible. Its like an ink jet printer. It lays down a thin layer of ink. Imagine putting down one layer but then the ink jet head moved up a drop and then another one and another one. Ten thousands of layers. And then it builds up a physical object in 3d. This was done over the course of hours. Probably close to a day. Its a fairly large object. This literally was done today. This afternoon. Yes, as a matter of fact one of the guys said lets grab this. It just came out of the printer. This was an idea that a bunch of colleagues of mine had a couple of days ago. They said, lets do this. They wanted an interesting pattern. As you can see the light shines through. They designed this using 3d Modeling Software that we make. They took it just as you would have taken the blueprint to the maker, they hit a button. In the old days you would take this to a manufacturer, lets just say vietnam or malaysia, and then to get it at a price point that was reasonable, you would have to sell tens of thousand thousands of them. But now you can send this to the other side of the world and they can print out the exact same object. Its the exact same object. Just like we send a file or document around the world, we can do that with physical objects. There has been a bunch of interesting experiments with this, ideas like not just how its made but where if can be made. A colleague of mine just did it in a simulation of space with the idea of instead of bringing the complete inventory of parch you would need in a space station. Take a 3d printer and print what you need. If youre in a remote village of africa take a 3d printer and you can print what you need. I would imagine something huge you would need something more than a small box, you would have robotic arms that go on and on and on . I read that down at usc theyre printing a building. Yes, there is a guy down at usc, a professor who printed a building. Enormous robotic structure computer controlled, he basically instead of the plastic that this is made out of, made it out of concrete. No forms. Youre not pouring concrete into forms like you would in a tradition thing. Its going around layer by layer building up a building. The only limitation is imagination . Yes, in some ways there is always the limit of imagination. There are practical limitations of how much it costs, how long does it take, those are real considerations, but one of the things about most technology, and this is following the same trajectory as you watch over time prices are coming down. The size of things youre building is going up. The speed youre building is going up. It has incredible advantages. You can print things the sail of the building. Another phenomenal interesting thing is there is a professor at wake forest who has printed a human kidney. Remarkable. Thats when you have to pause. What, organ organic components. Theyre printing cells. Instead of what comes out metal plastic, in this case theyre putting cells together. He shows it, and then in the end there is one printing on stage and youer youre holding this thing and it looks like youre at the butcher. It looks like a kid. Its not ready for implantation for the human body. This could be five years away. Is this a home unit that will be made available where we can start printing out things that our friends are sharing like files and music hey you want a new pair of shoes . Well print some out. Youll start to see that. There are home units hitting the market. School shops theyll be in schools. They are now all these things turning up all over the place these doityourself kind of workshops. These labs, they will be accessible to our kids with that idea. Just like music one of the things i love, weve done a bunch of work in which we can go out now and take photographs and turn them into 3d models. Imagine seeing something you like. You go take a photograph of it. You turn it into a 3d model. To the extent you dont like the model, you want to change it, tweak it just like music you can print it out. The other day i was with my nephews, and they wanted to go get a statue of Willie Willie mays. I said, lets try this. We took a picture of the willie mays statue, printed it and made a 3d one. Piracy, laws will have to catch up with technology. Thats a legitimate concern. Totally legitimate concern following music video and everything else, everything embedded with intellectual property. The law is nowhere close contemplating the ability to do this. But i have confidence in the legislative process and the commercial marketplace will sort this out. Body parts clothing, practical function, medical equipment. Yes. Parts for airports, airport airplanes all of it. When they first started doing this it was called rapid prototyping. It was low volume high value. We would go to low volume high value. A hearing aid that fits your ear. Dentistry where you need a crown. Only one needs to be made in the world, so you could 3d print the hearing aid. There is a friend of mine who is in San Francisco using it for prosthetic legs, braces for scoliosis. The one i love is braces for scoliosis. Totally curable, mostly adolescent girls who dont want to wear the brace. If you wear the brace, imagine going from the brace that is unattractive to the cool pattern of whatever color you want to when her friend who doesnt have it wants one of the braces. Youve been a big pro poe then the, what are the trends{ l }. You talk about digital fabrication. What are the trends in the world were living in. Yeah, part of it is our business relies on innovation. But i get to work with some of the most creative intelligent not only individuals but companies that are pushing the edges of all this. You get to see how do you face the worlds challenges . How do you solve big problems . Whetherlets reimagine what transportation would look like with Something Like tesla. One of the areas with the most interesting stuff is the world of synthetic biology. One of the things that i think is incredible, people are now programming organisms bacteria and other things to actually behave differently. I know people who are using dna as a structural component to build nano robots for drug delivery. Im designing things too small for the eye to see that will go into your body. When it finds the right cell it will open up and deliver a chemical payload. Your imagination jumps to things like cancer. I believe we will look back and say, you know chemical therapy will look as bar bear rick as drilling a hole in somebodys head to cure a headache. Were going to find out we can target these things directly. People who are researching things like that, theyre saying its not only for cells you want to kill, but those you want to augment. When you hear that, this is Science Fiction. You created this science fact. You brought it in for us to see. Is this 20 years from now, 10 years . What is your sense . This is unbelievable to the average persons imagination. You cant imagine the ability for Nano Technology and synthetic byiology all these interdisciplinaries coming together. There isnt a single thing that doesnt exist. What does it take to commercialize it. How long in the lab we can physically print the human kidney. On the other hand the same doctor who did that has already printed a human bladder that has been implanted. Wow. So were on the road to do these things. But none of it is Science Fiction. Were not making things up. For example when we say you take dna and you reorganize it, and then you look under electron microscope, and that shape that you imagined is there in the electron microscope, and you go, this is real. People dont under that you can now mail order dna. I want strands composed of these, you put it in the booker and thenbeekerand you mix it pup it up. Unbelievable things. For kids, this there is a joke when we were growing up, you know, from the graduatego into plastics. Oh, yes. Nowadays, you say biology. We may not be quite in time, but our kids will enjoy a lifestyle and be exposed to stuff that would be unimaginable to us. This personalized medicine. Replacing organs with 3d printed versions. Unbelievable. Carl, thanks so much for being on the show. There was something not quite right about Chris Anderson when we sat down in our studio for an interview a few weeks back. All he wanted to talk about was robotics. Now we know why. Well talk about the former wired editor in chiefs true passion right after a quick break. When alea was born i definitely was not prepared. I just asked myself, am i doing all that i can, am i doing the best that i can for her . My whole family was so thrilled and so excited. It was just the start of a wonderful journey. I feel lucky every single day that i have my parents, i have my grandparents and that alea has grandparents and greatgrandparents. Sometimes theyll joke around and theyll say, hows our baby, hows our baby . And shes almost like this collective family baby. The fact that all of these generations can live together happily and get to know each other and learn from each other is really incredible. My mom was diagnosed with type1 diabetes when she was 15. When she was first diagnosed they didnt even have any blood sugar monitor. People really didnt know what the future would hold for her but now, today, there are so many Resources Available to her. She has all these technological devices to help her stay healthy. Its sunny out. It is sunny out. Since alea was born, i almost feel more responsible for making the world a better place. We all have the ability to make it better for ourselves and for our children. Brought to you by roche, the maker of the new accuchek nano blood glucose meter. [ theme music ] Chris Anderson has written a number of books including the long tail. He has worked with the economist and held a top job at wire magazine. He wanted to talk about new trends in technology, and turns out this is his last interview as editor in chief of wired or you might say this is his first interview as ceo of robotics. Your new book, what is makers all about. This whole world of 3d printing, what is it for the layperson . Well, the Maker Movement is just what happens when the web generation turns to the real world. We saw when personal computers entered our lives and suddenly we had the ability to create Software Content and then we saw what happened when the web entered our lives and we could publish and broadcast and regular people could take part in the world. Now instead of 3d computers we have 3d desk top printers. Now we have the ability to take that and apply to manufacturing real stuff, everything around us. Some of the viewers are a little more familiar with 3d manufacturing, the like, this seems Science Fiction for some. I mean the whole idea of literally pressing sound on your computer and printing at home a three dimensional object without limitation. You challenge folks and you talk in these revolutionary terms that this is the next great revolution that will dramatically change the stale debate were having is manufacturing part of our past . How can we compete globally . Are you overstating things . Is this like an old magazine where were going to be on conveyor belts on sidewalks as i read as a kid. When we see power poles go from Companies Industry from the few to the many. You can see thats what technology does. Its cheaper and more ubiquitous ubiquitous. Thats predictable. What is unpredictable is what people do with them. When we invented the web we hadnt imagined youtube and beyond. There are surprises when regular people use the tools that change the world. We can go back to the beginning of the conversation. A world where we are threatened by china cheap China Vietnam bangladesh where wherever the next generation of cheap labor the erosion of middle class jobs and manufacturing jobs. Weve seen that the last four decades as productivity has gone up. Do you see a world where were starting to shift back where were not necessarily going to look at those mass scale manufacturing models but now just dramatically increase the number of entrepreneurs out there who can do equivalent or greater amount of manufacturing without the traditional constructs in those limitations you speak of . Very much so. What we saw in the 20th century was america is the worlds large manufacturer. Weve lost many manufacturing jobs. The reason why we lost them was labor arbitrage. Labor moved to lower Cost Companies in asia primarily. The reason why we kept the manufacturing jobs we have was automation by and large. But that really is the big the boeings, fords, g. M. S big stuff, heavy investment in tooling and close to market, prance fortation. The other stuff textiles, electronics were moved to asia and beyond. That was the outflow. Now on things like the web things Like Technology we didnt see that same outflow. We saw inflow. Because the jobs created were higher trained jobs, more skilled, more knowledge worker jobs that the machinery was desk top size and everyone had access to it. Now we have the computer desk top sized manufacturing tools. And we have smaller and Smaller Labor components in the products. What do we need to be doing that the doll houses that you mention in your books that they have to play in the real world and come up with the idea of precipitating their furniture for the doll house. How do we scale this . Imagine this. Today a 3d printer they cost about 1,200 to maybe 2,200. They pretty much work right out of the box. You plug them in and start printing. Take the computerso we lost our industrial arts. We lost our shop class and wood shop some combination of manufacturing not seen as the route to the middle class budget cuts, liability you remember that. Right, right. We lost that, and were not getting those wood shop classes back any time soon. But we have instead computer labs. Right now those computer labs, table full of computers and now add two 3d printers. Theyre no more expensive and then you took that computer lab into a design lab. Imagine along with learning power point and typing they learn design digital design using free tools super easy to use like a video game. Kids are playing mind craft. Thats a cad program. They dont know it. Now those kids are getting one lesson which is anything they can imagine they can hold in their hand. And they justyou know, every day somebody does a little project and at the end of class there it is. Were creating the 21st century workforce. Its exciting. Here is to the new age of manufacturing and new industrial evolution. Chris, great to have you on the show. I appreciate it. Thank you. Theres a lot more innovation in retail than simply knowing what you need with one click. Joyus one of the new fastgrowing online retailers that wants to use a Personalized Service to get you hook. Our chat when we return. ncc [ music ] Sukhinder Cassidy spent two decades as Media Executive to Companies Like google and amazon before launching joyus. Com. Shes founder and chairman of a shopping site that is relying heavily on video to attract buyers to the show. This is about the future of shopping. Were taking a much more 360 view. Discovery approach to commerce. The way i think about shopping, i think about shoppingi was at amazon in 1999, but today its become the product serve search. The google of shopping. You go there knowing right what you want. Amazon is still an amazing experience from end to end, and personalization. But when you look at 99 and beyond you see the rise of the under penetrated category of commerce online. Home joyus in bringing video online. When you look at all the things in commerce theyre t