Making tomorrow: How the future will be manufactured

Schedule

Sat Mar 21 2026 at 01:30 pm to 02:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Institute for Manufacturing | Cambridge, EN

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This talk will look at some of the amazing ways in which things we need for our future will be made locally, globally… and even off-planet!
About this Event

In this talk, we will look at some of the amazing ways in which things that we need for our future lives will be made – locally, globally… and even off-planet!


If you look around where you are now, everything that you can see – unless it is a plant, a rock, a person or some other animal – has been manufactured. There is a whole, largely invisible, system spanning the globe that makes and delivers all of the products that we need or want. But the way this amazing system works is changing – mostly for the better, but sometimes in ways that are less good for us and our planet.



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Institute for Manufacturing, Charles Babbage Rd, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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