Bastian Schaefer: A 3D-printed jumbo jet?

Translator: Iris Xholi Reviewer: Helena Bedalli

What do we know about the future?

Cfare dime ne lidhje me te ardhmen?

Difficult question, simple answer: nothing.

Pyetje e veshtire, pergjigje e thjeshte: asgje.

We cannot predict the future.

Nuk mund ta parashikojme te ardhmen.

We only can create a vision of the future, how it might be,

Ajo qe mund te bejme eshte te krijojme nje vizion te te ardhmes, ashtu si mund te jete,

a vision which reveals disruptive ideas, which is inspiring,

nje vizion qe tregon ide te padisiplinuara, frymezuese

and this is the most important reason

arsyeja kryesore

which breaks the chains of common thinking.

qe shkeput zinxhirin e te menduarit te zakonshem.

There are a lot of people

Ka shume njerez

who created their own vision about the future,

te cilet kane krijuar vizionin e tyre per te ardhmen,

for instance, this vision here from the early 20th century.

per shembull, ja nje vizion i shekullit te 20-te.

It says here that this is the ocean plane of the future.

Ketu thuhet, se ky eshte aeroplani oqeanik i te ardhmes.

It takes only one and a half days to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

I duhet vetem 1 dite e gjysem per te kaluar Oqeanin Atlantik.

Today, we know that this future vision didn't come true.

Sot, e dime qe ky vizion i te ardhmes nuk u be realitet.

So this is our largest airplane which we have,

Ky eshte aeroplani me i madh qe kemi,

the Airbus A380, and it's quite huge,

Airbus A380, dhe eshte mjaft i madh,

so a lot of people fit in there

mban shume njerez ne te

and it's technically completely different

dhe eshte plotesisht i ndryshem teknikisht

than the vision I've shown to you.

nga versioni qe ju kam terguar.

I'm working in a team with Airbus,

Jam duke punuar ne nje grup me Airbus,

and we have created our vision

dhe kemi mundur te krijojme vizionin tone

about a more sustainable future of aviation.

per nje te ardhme me te qendrueshme te aviacionit.

So sustainability is quite important for us,

Pra, qendrueshmeria eshte mjaft e rendesishme per ne,

which should incorporate social

dhe duhet te perfshije vlera sociale

but as well as environmental and economic values.

sikunder dhe ambientaliste dhe ekonomike.

So we have created a very disruptive structure

Pra, kemi krijuar nje strukture shume te padisiplinuar

which mimics the design of bone, or a skeleton,

qe imiton dizenjon e kockes, ose skeletit,

which occurs in nature.

qe e gjejme ne natyre.

So that's why it looks maybe a little bit weird,

Pra, ndaj dhe duket paksa e cuditshme,

especially to the people who deal with structures in general.

mbi te gjitha atyre njerezve qe merren me struktura ne pergjithesi.

But at least it's just a kind of artwork

Por ne fund te fundit eshte vetem nje veper arti

to explore our ideas about a different future.

per te eksploruar idete tona rreth nje te ardhmje te ndryshme.

What are the main customers of the future?

Cilet jane klientet e te ardhmes?

So, we have the old, we have the young,

Pra, kemi te moshuarin, te riun,

we have the uprising power of women,

dhe fuqine gjithnje ne ngritje qe eshte gruaja,

and there's one mega-trend which affects all of us.

dhe nje trend gjigand qe na ndikon te gjitheve.

These are the future anthropometrics.

Keto jane antropometriks e te ardhmes.

So our children are getting larger, but at the same time

Pra, femijet tane jane duke u bere me te medhenj, nderkohe qe ne

we are growing into different directions.

jemi duke u rritur ne drejtime te ndryshme.

So what we need is space inside the aircraft,

Pra, ajo qe na duhet eshte hapesire brenda aeroplanit,

inside a very dense area.

brenda nje hapesire me shume densitet.

These people have different needs.

Keto njerez kane kerkesa te ndryshme.

So we see a clear need of active health promotion,

Pra, ketu duket qarte nje nevoje per promovim te te qenit aktiv,

especially in the case of the old people.

mbi te gjitha tek behet fjale per te moshuarit.

We want to be treated as individuals.

Duam te trajtohemi si individe.

We like to be productive throughout the entire travel chain,

Duam te jemi produktiv pergjate te gjithe ciklit te udhetimit,

and what we are doing in the future is

dhe ajo cka duam per te ardhmen eshte

we want to use the latest man-machine interface,

perdorimi i nderhyrjes njeri-makineri,

and we want to integrate this and show this in one product.

duke i permbledhur te gjitha keto ne nje produkt te vetem.

So we combined these needs with technology's themes.

Pra, ne i kombinuam keto kerkesa me tema te teknologjise.

So for instance, we are asking ourselves,

Per shembull, jemi duke e pyetur veten,

how can we create more light?

si mund te krijojme me shume ndricim?

How can we bring more natural light into the airplane?

Si mund te lejojme me shume drite natyrale ne kabine?

So this airplane has no windows anymore, for example.

Ky aeroplan, nuk ka me dritare per shembull.

What about the data and communication software

Po persa i perket te dhenave dhe softuerve te komunikimit

which we need in the future?

qe na nevojiten ne te ardhmen?

My belief is that the airplane of the future

Besimi im eshte qe aeroplanet e te ardhmes

will get its own consciousness.

do te kene ndergjegjen e tyre.

It will be more like a living organism

Do jete me teper si nje organizem i gjalle

than just a collection of very complex technology.

se sa bashkimi i teknologjive shume komlekse.

This will be very different in the future.

Kjo do te jete shume ndryshe ne te ardhmen.

It will communicate directly

Do te komunikoje drejt per se drejti

with the passenger in its environment.

me pasagjeret ne ambjentet e tij.

And then we are talking also about materials,

Por, gjithashtu jemi duke folur per materiale,

synthetic biology, for example.

bilologji sintetike per shembull.

And my belief is that we will get more and more

Dhe besimi im eshte qe do te arrijme te kemi gjithnje e me shume

new materials which we can put into structure later on,

materiale te reja, qe me vone mund t'i vendosim ne strukture,

because structure is one of the key issues in aircraft design.

sepse struktura eshte nje nga celesat kyc ne dizenjimin e aeroplanit.

So let's compare the old world with the new world.

Pra, le ta krahesojme boten e vjeter me te rene.

I just want to show you here what we are doing today.

Thjesht dua t'ju tregoj ketu se cfare jemi duke bere ne sot.

So this is a bracket of an A380 crew rest compartment.

Kjo eshte nje ndarje e vendqendrimit te ekuipazhit ne nje A380.

It takes a lot of weight,

Ka shume peshe,

and it follows the classical design rules.

dhe ndjek te gjitha rregullat e dizenjimit klasik.

This here is an equal bracket for the same purpose.

Kjo ketu eshte nje ndarje e njejte dhe per te njejtin qellim.

It follows the design of bone.

Ndjek dizenjon e kockes.

The design process is completely different.

Dizenjimi ndryshon kryekeput.

At the one hand, we have 1.2 kilos,

Ne njeren ane kemi 1.2 kg,

and at the other hand 0.6 kilos.

ndersa ne tjetren 0.6 kg.

So this technology, 3D printing, and new design rules

Pra kjo teknologjie e re, Printime 3D, dhe rregulla te reja dizenjimi

really help us to reduce the weight,

na ndihmojne shume ne zvogelimin e peshes,

which is the biggest issue in aircraft design,

cka eshte problematika me e madhe ne dizenjon e nje aeroplani,

because it's directly linked to greenhouse gas emissions.

pasi lidhet drejt per se drejti me prodhimin e gazrave te efektit sere.

Push this idea a little bit forward.

Le ta cojme pak me perpara kete ide.

So how does nature build its components and structures?

Pra, si i nderton natyra strukturat dhe perberesit e saj?

So nature is very clever. It puts all the information

Natyra eshte mjaft e mencur. Te gjithe informacionin

into these small building blocks, which we call DNA.

e vendos ne keto blloqe te vogla ndertimi, qe ne i quajme ADN.

And nature builds large skeletons out of it.

Me to, natyra nderton skelete shume te medha.

So we see a bottom-up approach here,

Ketu shohim nje qasje nga poshte-lart,

because all the information, as I said, are inside the DNA.

pasi i gjithe informacioni eshte brenda ADN-se.

And this is combined with a top-down approach,

Ky pastaj kombinohet me nje qasje nga lart-poshte,

because what we are doing in our daily life

sepse ajo cka ne bejme perdite eshte

is we train our muscles, we train our skeleton,

trajnimi i muskujve tone, i skeletit tone

and it's getting stronger.

te cilet sa vine e forcohen.

And the same approach can be applied to technology as well.

E njejta qasje mund te aplikohet edhe per teknologjine.

So our building block is carbon nanotubes, for example,

Blloqet baze te ndertimit jane nanotuba karboni,

to create a large, rivet-less skeleton at the end of the day.

ne menyre per te krijuar nje skelet me te madh dhe pa ndihmen e shume bullonave.

How this looks in particular, you can show it here.

Ja se si do te dukej me qartesisht kjo gje.

So imagine you have carbon nanotubes growing

Pra, imagjinoni qe ne krijojme nanotuba karboni ne

inside a 3D printer,

printerat 3D,

and they are embedded inside a matrix of plastic,

te ngulitura mire brenda nje matrice plastike,

and follow the forces which occur in your component.

dhe qe ndjekin forcat brenda komponentit tuaj.

And you've got trillions of them.

Dhe ketu flasim per triliona te ketilla.

So you really align them to wood,

I rreshton mbi dru,

and you take this wood and make morphological optimization,

e me pas ketij druri i bejme nje optimizim morfologjik

so you make structures, sub-structures,

ne menyre per te krijuar struktura dhe nen-struktura,

which allows you to transmit electrical energy or data.

qe lejojne tejcimin e te dhenave dhe energjise elektrike.

And now we take this material, combine this

Tani, e marrim kete material dhe e kombinojme me

with a top-down approach,

qasjen tone nga lart-poshte,

and build bigger and bigger components.

duke krijuar perberes gjithnje e me te medhenj.

So how might the airplane of the future look?

Pra, si mund te duket aeroplani i te ardhmes?

So we have very different seats which adapt

Kemi sedilje teresisht te ndryshme qe adaptohen

to the shape of the future passenger,

ne varesi te formes se pasagjereve qe do te udhetojne,

with the different anthropometrics.

me antropometriks te ndryshem.

We have social areas inside the aircraft

Kemi krijuar disa zona sociale brenda kabines

which might turn into a place

qe mund te shnderrohen ne vende

where you can play virtual golf.

ku mund te luhet golf virtual.

And finally, this bionic structure,

Dhe si perfundim, struktura bionike,

which is covered by a transparent

qe eshte e mbuluar nga nje membrane transparente

biopolymer membrane, will really change radically

bipolimere, qe do ta ndryshoje rrenjesisht menyren

how we look at aircrafts in the future.

se si do te duken aeroplanet e te ardhmes.

So as Jason Silva said,

Dhe sikunder tha Jason Silva,

if we can imagine it, why not make it so?

"Nese mundemi ta imagjinojme, pse te mos e ndertojme?"

See you in the future. Thank you.

Takohemi ne te ardhmen. Faleminderit.

(Applause)

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