My sister has gone deep with traditional techniques for spinning various fibers into yarn for knitting, and has recently started learning some Peruvian weaving techniques. This has me thinking about technoweaving collectives high in the Andes, and how this would be the most cyber punk thing ever.
Then I start to wonder seriously if we'll hit a point where traditional artisans working with these kinds of materials would be able to create truly novel things with practical uses.
There's this awesome series of Pervuian cyberpunk comics[1] (the first ones are out, and they're great; the the latest one has been funded isn't complete yet). Maybe it's worth making Vargas aware of this development as inspiration for future comics.
It looks like quite a thick weave currently but that’s only going to get better.
Having lived and worked in the tech industry in Cambridge (used to design biotech/medical devises) this is exactly the type of development that the university and local business are brilliant at scaling up and industrialising. There is a lot of Seed/VC funding available from previous founders who are looking for exciting tech to invest in. And the local skills there are amazing, I loved my time working for Cambridge tech companies.
This is very interesting. Just moments ago I was wondering what happened to digital cloths as I played around with that like 10 years ago.
This has a big importance for professionel outfits. They could signal different states of what the proffesionels are doing. And so better comunicate between professionels at work. First responders for example. Who is who and who is working on what could be done that way
You'd never have to change clothes again. Wear one of these, and you can have your work uniform, change to your football team, go on failed dates, and so on. Fast fashion is not great for the planet, and you don't have to use space in your house for a bunch of clothes that are mostly not being worn.
Imagine if the sleeve of your hoodie could display information and contact points. Now imagine you get a call or have an idea and your hoodie could be fully flipped over your face, allowing you a full field private screen. Imagine if your jacket could signal to those around you your intentions while driving. Your gloves could light up objects that it holds.
Now imagine that your clothes also harvest energy...
The UK uses both metric and Imperial measurements, depending on the circumstances. And you will see more of it: the government is very proud that Brexit means ditching the metric system.
Even in many places where inches is much rarer in use than in the UK, it's still common to use for the diagonal of displays. Of course that only makes sense if they've stuck to roughly a common display aspect ratio.
https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs414...
From the supplementary movie links at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28459-6#MOESM4