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From above, a drone captures the image of a single warehouse, the only structure occupying the surrounding 340 miles of southern Missouri foothills. This dark gray structure is the new HuMax headquarters, which unveiled this week. The independent development company that has given us such wonders as biofibre mimetic fabric and self repairing screens, strikes it’s third groundbreaking leap in material technology. The warehouse, large enough to house an Airbus A380, is constructed of CarbonCrete, a material developed onsite.
In their fourth year, HuMax Material Lab revealed to developers everywhere that carbon is the newest essential material. MaxStaff researchers discovered that the microscopic crystal structures formed in carbon bonds could then be extracted as raw carbon filament. Extremely lightweight and impressive in strength, the filament proved to be the ideal material for building low cost company planes and vehicles. Now it is commonplace to see several carbon fibre bicycles chained to posts around our cities, but HuMax still continues
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The innovatory cement compound is as light, as it is pliable, as it is durable. Working with concrete that is 40% lighter, construction of the whole 70,650ft² exterior took less than three months and little effort. It’s high density ensures that the headquarters will stand for generations and generations, a bold declaration of their promise to serve the Future. CarbonCrete is easy to ship, easy to shape, and
developers are waiting patiently for this seemingly magical material’s commercial release. Once available, we are sure to see CarbonCrete being used universally. However, the most impressive thing about this warehouse is what lies beneath. In it’s seven basement floors, HuMax has constructed an entirely self sustaining environment. Three floors are dedicated to laboratory research and churn out experimental designs daily. These go though years of quality control testing before anything gets announced publicly.
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Successful designs are applied to their own facility, which continues to grow as HuMax does. Their energy, which is constantly being filtered and recycled, comes from a combination of micro-hydro electricity and solar panels that circulate electrons through an internal network system. Floor 5 houses around two thousand artificial sun ray lamps for the Garden that oxygenates the building. Here MaxStaff also perform genetic experiments for research on plant based fibers, pollution filtration systems, membrane metals, and anything else they can come up with, for these large scale developments must start somewhere. HuMax’s dedication to extensive research makes for a record of unmatched technologies in the current field of Eco Design and biotechnology. Their headquarters stand as solid as their spot in design history. One cannot begin to expect what we will see from them in the Future.
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Most people nowadays, almost as soon as they have free time, pick up their
phones or other kinds of digital devices to ingest information; platforms like Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and other sites or services being the most widespread. The data is very rich and updated instantaneously, which makes many feel as if they are really operating at the same pace with this era. Holding the phone, controlling the world’s dynamic, and seeing through the world’s “authenticity” are powerful forces acting upon the human mind. But the truth is that with the popularity of digital devices and the rapid update of all kinds of information and opinions, anyone can easily be brainwashed by people with massive means and goals despite the ever-increasing and further complicated details and ideas. First of all, to attract people’s attention to all kinds of information on smartphones, editors have planned and purposefully added prominent pictures and sensational “facts” to the text processing. What’s more, this kind of information is vividly described. What editors and planners are trying to do is to attract you and make you read it most efficiently and excitingly. Over time, you may be only interested in the superficial and exaggerated information, and slow down to the slightly abstract, complex data that needs thinking. Gradually, we may lose the ability to think deeply about abstractions and complicated phenomena, and the most terrible thing is that we may not be able to perceive this change consciously. Thus, when a person prefers superficial, so-called “vivid” information, it is much easier to be brainwashed. Some people may think that they can gain knowledge from a passive watching of information, but in fact, the news is not without knowledge, but it is the knowledge that is endlessly stretched by suspense, repetition, speculation, assumption, and nonsense. And most of the news, our lives, and work do not have much practical help. If so, it is more of a pastime.
Secondly, some people think that they can see multiple viewpoints on the through a network, which opens a broader horizon for them. A recent survey concluded that more people are not necessarily more broad-minded, as many online opinions contradict each other. For example, you’ve just read this argument, you applaud it, and then the following day a completely different and contradictory argument appeared and was is also very persuasive. This kind of situation will make people’s mind in the fierce contradiction, read thousands of comments and opinions every day, inner conflict, often let oneself in a state of confusion. When a person is often in a state of mind or inner conflict, the person needs a robust sense of spiritual strength, because, from the perspective of human nature, a person cannot always be in a state of mind wandering, or inner conflict, which will make it very painful. Therefore, when there is a strong spiritual force, the person is natural to rely on this spiritual force, and then solve their inner contradictions and pain. Thus some clever brainwashers will take advantage of people’s internal conflict or the state of thought contradiction, and take advantage of the opportunity to put their healthy thoughts into the person’s head. Finally, people might think they can know more information through phone/computer digital devices, which not only broadens their horizon and increases their knowledge but also makes them less likely to be cheated. However, there is an essential and critical factor in the process of brainwashing, and that is information control. On the one hand, controlling the input of information, even cutting off the primary information source, is a way for many people to be controlled. For example, some organizations lock you in a building, and you were being taught and trained every day, they do not let you receive other information from the outside, then give you slowly receive the organization’s ideas, promote you to make the corresponding action. Many of us now even hold the phone while eating, spending the vast majority of time immersed in the information and opinions our phone provides allows us to flood ourselves with information overload. Just like in today’s network society, the amount of information updated every day is beyond the brain’s processing capacity. Over time, the brain’s processing capacity becomes low, independent judgment is deprived, and finally, people become easily controlled.
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