Future Science Platforms

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Narrator: At CSIRO we push the edge of what’s possible.

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We invented WiFi, Aerogard and thousands of other clever innovations

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and we’re always busy thinking about the future. 

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So what’s next? 

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Technologies to look deep inside the earth for the minerals we need to make the things we depend on. 

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Networks to help farmers feed billions more people using Sensor Data and Smart Analytics to match crops to future soil and weather conditions. 

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Breeding,

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analysing and understanding the biological data that connects organisms to help conserve biodiversity and ecosystems. 

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Synthetic vaccines written one D.N.A. letter at a time

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or spare parts for our bodies, personalised and made to order.

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Sensors that monitor every aspect of our health in real time

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so cancers might be caught

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before they can recur

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and connecting robotics, materials, sensors, data and A.I. to make machines smarter

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so they can custom manufacture almost anything just as it is needed. 

[The camera zooms out to show 6 circles connected to the CSIRO logo in the centre and the whole rotates in a clockwise direction and then the inner circle changes and text appears inside the circles: Future Science Platforms, Active Integrated Matter, Probing Systems, Synthetic Biology, Deep Earth Imaging, Digiscape and Environomics]

These are just some of the visions behind our new future science platforms. 

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[The animation picture scrolls off the bottom of the screen and CSIRO logo and text appears: Future Science Platforms, www.csiro.au/fsp]

A multi-year, multi-disciplinary investment in our collective future, bringing very smart people together from CSIRO and our partners to work on big ideas for the future. 

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