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home speculative technologies model about team programs library updates get involved donate model about team programs library updates get involved donate humanity needs new frontiers speculative technologies is a nonprofit industrial research lab for public good our mission is to create an abundant wonder filled future by unlocking powerful materials and manufacturing technologies that don t have a home in other institutions to skip to the details check out our faq filling gaps in the research ecosystem our ability to unlock many physical technologies has stalled because of an institutional gap between academic research and product development large companies and startups need to focus on profit and growth respectively making them a poor home for speculative technology research there is uncertainty both about success and whether the organization doing the work will be able to capture the value of that technology as a result academia has established a monopoly on pre commercial research but the university system that prioritizes novelty over usefulness can t hire engineering teams and has some of the most intense bureaucracies in history is at odds with creating amazing new technologies if we don t close this gap the future is at stake new materials and manufacturing processes we focus on new paradigms in materials and manufacturing while these areas aren t the first that come to mind when you think of the world s biggest problems new materials and manufacturing processes consistently enable us to solve problems and create abundance in ways we couldn t even have imagined we call them the bronze copper iron steam and silicon ages for a reason our model is meant to bridge the valley of death by riffing on the things that made bell labs pre 1972 arpa and xerox parc great without slavishly trying to copy 20th century organizations in the 21st century at the end of the day our mo is to do what needs to be done to turn big if true technologies from a weird thing that seems like it will never happen into an inevitability obviously that s a bit vague so we organize around two core concepts amazing program leads and coordinated research programs program leads we find ambitious scientists with deep technical expertise and a clear vision of big if true technologies that don t have a home in other institutions work with them to figure out how to build those technologies and then help them execute on that plan coordinated research programs our program leads run five year research efforts with four phases 1 incubate 2 derisk 3 build 4 transition click here for more details about our model programs brains coordinated research accelerator brains is a 15 week part time accelerator to provide the skills and opportunities for ambitious individuals to execute on research visions with potentially huge impact that aren t a good fit for a company but are too big for a single academic lab think ycombinator for coordinated research programs learn more carbon to chemicals led by quentin dudley by pulling enzymes substrates and cofactors out of organisms and into a bioreactor we can take advantage of metabolic pathways to sustainably convert harvested sugar or even carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into useful molecules quickly and efficiently instead of deriving them from petroleum this program aims to expand the scale and scope of cell free manufacturing both of which are currently limited impossible fibers led by tim mcgee natural materials like spider silk dramatically outperform synthetic materials in multiple dimensions it might be possible to build systems that use the same mechanisms as biology to build high performance fibers and materials that are currently unachievable while simultaneously making existing processes more sustainable nanomodular electronics led by michael filler nanomodular electronics is creating a new process for manufacturing microelectronics that are customizable down to the transistor use a plethora of materials and can be made on demand without etching silicon or requiring a massive expensive facility by creating tiny modular components separately from laying them down and wiring them together we could make custom microelectronics as easily as printing this document learn more molecular additive manufacturing led by chris wintersinger molecular additive manufacturing is creating heterogeneous materials whose structures can be specified down to nanoscale building blocks potentially enabling us to engineer structures we depend on biology for today by templating a precise pattern of covalently bonded proteins polymers and inorganic molecules we could create powerful catalysts membranes to easily filter water and take the first steps on the path towards atomically precise manufacturing learn more aria collaboration spectech is creating a soon to be public library of resources on how to run coordinated research programs in collaboration with the uk s aria advanced research invention agency we believe that it s possible to make this career more accessible by codifying the critical skills and mindsets that go into leading these programs we are also creating a complementary 1 1 mentoring program for aria s programme directors programs brains coordinated research accelerator brains is a 15 week part time accelerator to provide the skills and opportunities for ambitious individuals to execute on research visions with potentially huge impact that aren t a good fit for a company but are too big for a single academic lab think ycombinator for coordinated research programs learn more carbon to chemicals led by quentin dudley by pulling enzymes substrates and cofactors out of organisms and into a bioreactor we can take advantage of metabolic pathways to sustainably convert harvested sugar or even carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into useful molecules quickly and efficiently instead of deriving them from petroleum this program aims to expand the scale and scope of cell free manufacturing both of which are currently limited impossible fibers led by tim mcgee natural materials like spider silk dramatically outperform synthetic materials in multiple dimensions it might be possible to build systems that use the same mechanisms as biology to build high performance fibers and materials that are currently unachievable while simultaneously making existing processes more sustainable nanomodular electronics led by michael filler nanomodular electronics is creating a new process for manufacturing microelectronics that are customizable down to the transistor use a plethora of materials and can be made on demand without etching silicon or requiring a massive expensive facility by creating tiny modular components separately from laying them down and wiring them together we could make custom microelectronics as easily as printing this document learn more molecular additive manufacturing led by chris wintersinger molecular additive manufacturing is creating heterogeneous materials whose structures can be specified down to nanoscale building blocks potentially enabling us to engineer structures we depend on biology for today by templating a precise pattern of covalently bonded proteins polymers and inorganic molecules we could create powerful catalysts membranes to easily filter water and take the first steps on the path towards atomically precise manufacturing learn more aria collaboration spectech is creating a soon to be public library of resources on how to run coordinated research programs in collaboration with the uk s aria advanced research invention agency we believe that it s possible to make this career more accessible by codifying the critical skills and mindsets that go into leading these programs we are also creating a complementary 1 1 mentoring program for aria s programme directors unlock the future subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the loop donate speculative technologies is a registered 501 c 3 2026 speculative technologies created by and now and 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