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Is Origami the Future of Tech?

Bloomberg Businessweek

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”, Arthur Clarke famously said. It has never become clearer to me how right he was than while reading this article about mind-boggling origami research being done at MIT in Cambridge. They went all the way from an old Houdini trick to DNA origami nanorobots capable of killing cancer cells. A must read.


From Weekly Filet #67, in May 2012. More on: ,

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