Where Could Adaptronics Contribute the Future

Abraham Maslow, a psychologist based at Brandeis University proposed his now famous Hierarchy of Needs in the 1960s. The first four physiological needs, safety needs, the need to belong and the need for esteem are, in 

The reason for mentioning this is that whilst western societies worry about their cottage in the country, seventy percent of the worlds populace has no access to the basic resources for those most fundamental of physiological and safety requirements. Responsible application of adaptronics could begin to address the creation of the basic infrastructure which is fundamental to human needs. 

Much could also be done in enhancing the lifetime, reliability and recyclability of both the manmade infrastructure and the consumer products which operate within it. This is probably the natural domain for adaptronics, the one in which the technology first began to be defined. 

So there is much that this technology can contribute, not only in its traditional arena but also in the far more diverse domains which could impact significantly on our collective future as a human society. 

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