I want to talk about what is happening now in our scientific, biotechnological culture, where, for really the first time in history, we have the power to design bodies, to design animal bodies, to design human bodies.

Isadore From became a patient, first of Fritz, and then Laura.

It's really about designing from the inside out.

It's about designing with people, and letting appropriate solutions emerge from within.

Well, I'm going to project into 2050.

I have learned a lot with this research, which has changed my concepts about learning and about the capacity to dream and project a better world .

Do we have free reign to design animals?

So, let me start projecting forward.

And it started to make me think a lot about the night sky, and how humans have always used the night sky to project their great stories.

If I project that, that would make me think that I would live until 120 if I don't crash on my motorbike.

And I specialize in human behavioral research, and applying what we learn to think about the future in different ways, and to design for that future.

You know, we hire firms to design these things.

It took 20 years to design this and get it implemented in the field.

I could, quite literally, fire myself into the gallery.

And I tried to design a kind of canary.

I don't try to design the toothbrush.

And so we were commissioned to design a bridge that would open.

Again, we start by designing the human into the process.

That really involves designing behaviors and personality into products.

And he used it to design this solar array.

It's time to start designing for our ears.

It's time to start designing for the ears.

And we're in the business of designing soundscapes.

It's endless what you can imagine, in terms of where you can project films and where you can have this communal experience.

And I like this because it challenges the way that we design stuff, and build stuff, and potentially distribute stuff.

Jessica Green We're covered in germs. Let's design for that.

You have to design an artificial foot for such conditions.

Build a nice home, bring the architect, design my house.

And I mention this because, if we want to design for that future, we need to figure out what those people are about.

So if we had to design a perfect cochlear implant, what we would try to do is target it to be able to allow music transmission.

For the first time in the history of this planet, we are able to directly design organisms.

Fashion, whether you like it or not, helps you project who you are to the world.

And I'm such a technician, so I loved this project, getting to play with all the techniques.

It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.

I have a studio in London that has a particular approach to designing buildings.

Logic systems are quite easy to design, and can handle very complex operations.

For example, there are tools for modeling and designing logic for embedded controllers.

If you go forward the next 10 years and cap the price of oil at 100 dollars a barrel, you will pay 2.2 trillion.

They can take a couple of years, or it can be difficult to design.

So I had the computer program design the short staples to do this.

This is a video I made when I first started doing toy design.

Satisfied with his skills, the publishers asked Tolkien to design a dust jacket.

He is physically massive and strong, and in one version he is some 12 feet tall.

Reed had already begun designing a starship capable of traveling in hyperspace.

If you don't design your life, someone else will design it for you, and you may just not like their idea of balance.