“What if the intelligent matter of our surroundings could understand us, give us feedback and communicate with us? What if the walls surrounding us were not only supporting our roofs, but had increased functionality? What if each brick, or building block, was a self-powered, decentralised computing entity that would comprise a part of an emerging, large-scale parallel computation? Then our smart buildings would be transformed to intelligent, computing, cerebral organisations that we could not only live in but also interact in a holistic cybernetic way.” “We present ideas aimed at bringing revolutionary changes on architectures and buildings of tomorrow by radically advancing the technology for the building material concrete and hence building components,” begins a fascinating research paper by a pan-European academic collective, published November 19th 2018. The research, led by Andrew Adamatzky, brings together experts from Poland, Sweden, Greece, and Germany, to put forward a boldly futuristic idea and explains how it may be […]