# Transcript: Architecture of the future: expanding our biosphere into space

## Description

We will explore the use of robotic construction methods, 3D printing, VR, artificial gravity, wireless power transfer, and other technologies that could turn sci-fi into reality. Tomáš will also share his experiences from international collaborations and the challenges he faces when implementing projects.



Who is Tomáš Rousek



Tomáš Rousek is the director of XTEND in Prague and London and also works as the director of architecture at ThinkOrbital in Colorado. He has contributed to missions to the Moon, Mars, and asteroids at NASA JPL, Ames, and JSC centers. He has collaborated on projects with ESA, the German space agency DLR, and the European Union. At ThinkOrbital, he develops concepts for large space platforms and infrastructure that would be robotically assembled and welded in orbit and on the Moon. He worked with Interlune on concepts for lunar stations for helium-3 mining and related robotic systems. Tom designed the Solstar WAP product, which NASA selected for the new HALO module of the Gateway lunar station. He led research on SinterHab, the first concept of a 3D-printed lunar module based on NASA technology. At AECOM in London, he contributed to architecture for the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup in Qatar, and Formula 1 in Abu Dhabi. He is the author of the architecture for the next-generation CR-100 nuclear power plant. Tom worked on architecture and design for brands such as Vodafone, LEGO, Škoda Auto, and Mercedes-Benz. His designs have been exhibited at 20 shows across Europe and America. He has received several awards, including from the NASA administrator. His research covers advanced architecture and transportation, robotic construction methods, space greenhouses and life support systems, 3D printing, virtual reality, graphics, and product design.

## Transcript

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**[00:00:30]** My name is Honza Mašek and today we are here.

**[00:00:34]** We will need the control room to turn off the TV.

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**[00:00:42]** I might just pull the cable out.

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**[00:00:50]** Never mind. Welcome to another Brain & Breakfast. It will work out somehow.

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**[00:02:34]** I already have the first question for you: is this your first time having breakfast with us,

**[00:02:38]** or have you been to a breakfast before?

**[00:02:42]** So how does it look? Just practice,

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**[00:02:54]** I think there will be quite a few questions.

**[00:02:58]** No, I've already been to breakfast 83%, I always see that wrong.

**[00:03:02]** So the hardcore fans are here today.

**[00:03:06]** I'm looking forward to it, hope it grows. Let's move on.

**[00:03:10]** I'll now welcome today's guest.

**[00:03:14]** Tomáš has a unique perspective, in my opinion.

**[00:03:18]** And someone I've waited this long for at breakfast,

**[00:03:22]** someone I've waited this long for, because I think I invited you,

**[00:03:26]** back when I was at 3M, come join us,

**[00:03:30]** back when I was at 3M, because space architecture,

**[00:03:34]** is something I really enjoy and find fascinating. Hi Tomáš, hello.

**[00:03:38]** So, I'll leave it to you now.

**[00:03:42]** This presentation is yours, you have your hour and maybe a bit more.

**[00:03:46]** I'm really looking forward to it, thanks a lot for coming.

**[00:03:48]** Yeah, thanks. The explanation about the breakfast is that

**[00:03:52]** space architecture is done in the evening in the American time zone.

**[00:03:56]** And I'm pretty unusable in the morning.

**[00:04:00]** So the guys had to convince me several times

**[00:04:04]** to come and set an alarm, and today it finally worked.

**[00:04:08]** So, what are we going to show?

**[00:04:17]** Yeah, good, it works.

**[00:04:21]** Wait, I think I'll sit like this instead.

**[00:04:30]** Well, I can see it now.

**[00:04:36]** Like this? No, that's also bad.

**[00:04:40]** Well, I don't know.

**[00:04:44]** It's better like this than staring at each other, but wait.

**[00:04:48]** You're presenting over there now, right?

**[00:04:50]** Yeah.

**[00:04:51]** And then we'll talk together, but now we have the presentation, so come on.

**[00:04:54]** Well, I see how it will be framed, wait, so I'll...

**[00:04:57]** Finally adjust it based on how you sit.

**[00:04:59]** Yeah, okay.

**[00:05:02]** Alright then.

**[00:05:06]** Well, we're good.

**[00:05:09]** I came to show a few projects we've done.

**[00:05:12]** My wife Verča and I started a small family company about 20 years ago,

**[00:05:18]** still with friends from university.

**[00:05:20]** And gradually the projects piled up,

**[00:05:25]** so we started working almost across the entire solar system.

**[00:05:33]** Well, considering our whole family is quite tall,

**[00:05:38]** we're about two meters tall,

**[00:05:40]** we named it Extend,

**[00:05:42]** because we're kind of elongated.

**[00:05:44]** And it actually works in this context for Extending,

**[00:05:47]** when you need to use it like Extending Mankind to Space,

**[00:05:52]** or Biosphere to Space.

**[00:05:54]** We like to use it as Extending Your Business.

**[00:05:58]** And basically, that's also our motto,

**[00:06:00]** that we like to think about how to push things further.

**[00:06:04]** Well, we enjoy designing everything from family houses and cottages on lakes

**[00:06:09]** to nuclear power plants for ČES

**[00:06:14]** and other experimental projects.

**[00:06:19]** We also really enjoy playing with office spaces.

**[00:06:22]** For example, we just finished offices for the Czech Republic

**[00:06:27]** or Bohemia Interactive in Karlín.

**[00:06:31]** And now there's an expo starting, for which we did a proposal,

**[00:06:36]** but of course we didn't win, because there was tough competition

**[00:06:39]** with about 36 studios.

**[00:06:42]** But we really enjoyed the topic,

**[00:06:45]** because it allowed us to connect with fantastic people

**[00:06:49]** that we have here in the Czech Republic.

**[00:06:52]** And basically, a whole series of other projects emerged from that,

**[00:06:58]** just by saying, let's show the world

**[00:07:03]** what interesting things we are doing here.

**[00:07:07]** For example, when it comes to nanotechnology,

**[00:07:10]** I met with the chairman of the Czech Nanoassociation for lunch

**[00:07:15]** and I said, let's show Japan

**[00:07:18]** what nanotechnology is being developed here.

**[00:07:21]** And he gave me contacts to a lot of top scientists.

**[00:07:27]** And it was great that among them was Martin Pumera,

**[00:07:32]** when I found out he works on nanorobot research

**[00:07:36]** and that he is one of the best Czech scientists,

**[00:07:39]** with the most citations in the country,

**[00:07:42]** so I called him and said,

**[00:07:45]** hey, we'd love to help you with what you're doing.

**[00:07:51]** And I said, it would be great,

**[00:07:54]** if you'd like to showcase something in Osaka

**[00:07:57]** and at the same time, if we could help you somehow.

**[00:08:00]** And he said, that's perfect timing,

**[00:08:03]** because we need to design a nanotechnology center here in Brno

**[00:08:07]** and present the building of Česká spořitelna for research.

**[00:08:12]** So it coincidentally matched up well.

**[00:08:16]** And we collaborate a lot with various space companies.

**[00:08:23]** Often it's like this,

**[00:08:27]** both in the Czech Republic and abroad,

**[00:08:30]** they need to show how their products work.

**[00:08:37]** In space, no one can take photos for you,

**[00:08:40]** so there's still room to create visualizations.

**[00:08:45]** We enjoy making various polished websites

**[00:08:48]** and interactive projects, 3D, animations.

**[00:08:52]** This is a campaign we're launching today.

**[00:08:55]** We collaborate with Genius on LinkedIn, Petr Mareš,

**[00:08:59]** who is trying to help us

**[00:09:02]** find projects overseas and around the world.

**[00:09:09]** It's funny that some people, when

**[00:09:13]** you connect on LinkedIn,

**[00:09:16]** immediately write, 'Oh my, I'm just looking for someone like you now.'

**[00:09:19]** And it's really a big coincidence.

**[00:09:22]** Just now, a guy from Colorado said

**[00:09:25]** they need help designing a table for a space station,

**[00:09:31]** to test it on board NASA's Boeing in Bestige state,

**[00:09:37]** to install it in a space station.

**[00:09:43]** And he has a kind of winter patent for it.

**[00:09:47]** We shook hands and it was just presented.

**[00:09:52]** So sometimes it's worth just connecting with people,

**[00:10:00]** that's a great coincidence.

**[00:10:04]** I thought maybe the lecture could be split into two parts.

**[00:10:09]** First we'll fly to the moon, then to Mars.

**[00:10:13]** The great thing about this flight is that we now have three new top rockets available.

**[00:10:19]** Some could be revolutionary because they can reduce costs

**[00:10:26]** to a fraction of what it used to cost.

**[00:10:31]** This allows us to build a new generation of space stations,

**[00:10:36]** bases, infrastructure, everything.

**[00:10:42]** Finally, we can move to a larger scale than satellites,

**[00:10:47]** which create the basic infrastructure.

**[00:10:51]** For example, this is a project we managed to get

**[00:10:56]** because I attended a conference at Stanford University

**[00:11:01]** about new space technologies and companies.

**[00:11:04]** I'm at the back here because I always stand at the back at conferences,

**[00:11:09]** so I stood next to a guy named Brian and we started talking.

**[00:11:12]** After ten years, we designed Wi-Fi routers for a lunar orbit station for NASA.

**[00:11:21]** It's great that now we have the Starship available,

**[00:11:29]** which hopefully will be fine-tuned soon.

**[00:11:33]** This could open an excellent path throughout the entire solar system.

**[00:11:40]** You can refuel it at various places and send it further.

**[00:11:44]** And it can even land like a proper reusable ship.

**[00:11:49]** When you watch all these movies, like Star Wars,

**[00:11:54]** you usually see a reusable ship that lands on some planet,

**[00:11:57]** then flies on again, unlike before when you had about five stages above you

**[00:12:04]** and you just jettisoned them and everything burned up in the atmosphere.

**[00:12:07]** Basically, it's like boarding a Boeing,

**[00:12:11]** flying across the ocean, and crashing on landing.

**[00:12:14]** Or it flew just as usefully.

**[00:12:18]** If you imagine the costs, rockets really cost as much as a Boeing or Airbus.

**[00:12:25]** And how much would a ticket cost if it was single-use,

**[00:12:29]** like it was with rockets until now.

**[00:12:32]** It was insanely expensive until now, and finally the time has come

**[00:12:39]** when you'll only pay for the fuel, like with an Airbus.

**[00:12:44]** And basically, all the latest generations of rockets

**[00:12:49]** are being designed to be reusable multiple times.

**[00:12:52]** This one here is the lunar version of Starship, put together

**[00:12:59]** by a colleague from Finko Orbital, who was a vice president at SpaceX, Lee Rosen.

**[00:13:07]** What's interesting about the moon is that it serves as a staging station

**[00:13:11]** to other parts of the surrounding space.

**[00:13:14]** For example, at the south pole, there are craters where the sun sometimes doesn't shine,

**[00:13:19]** it's minus 250 degrees, and water deposits are trapped there.

**[00:13:25]** That's perfect for making fuel,

**[00:13:30]** water, and air for astronauts, and so on.

**[00:13:35]** Because of the south pole, these places also have some areas

**[00:13:39]** that are very exposed to sunlight,

**[00:13:42]** where there is endless eternal sunshine.

**[00:13:50]** In some places, you can build solar power plants

**[00:13:54]** and basically have a large amount of energy available.

**[00:14:00]** These are some of the most valuable plots in our known universe.

**[00:14:07]** Of course, everyone is eager to get there as soon as possible,

**[00:14:10]** with the Chinese and Americans racing to claim it.

**[00:14:14]** I'm curious how it will turn out.

**[00:14:16]** Usually, the Czechs end up with some cheaper plots,

**[00:14:18]** somewhere further in the shadow.

**[00:14:21]** We might be happy just to have something on the equator

**[00:14:24]** or in the mid-latitudes, as we're used to.

**[00:14:29]** I actually enjoyed, even during my architecture studies at ČVUT,

**[00:14:33]** focusing on some future-oriented topics.

**[00:14:35]** We organized exhibitions like Futura Pragenzis,

**[00:14:37]** where we wanted to show what Prague might look like in the future,

**[00:14:40]** in the information age.

**[00:14:42]** Funny enough, the Troja Bridge was one of the visions

**[00:14:45]** we came up with and showed to the world at those exhibitions,

**[00:14:50]** which were held at the National Gallery and various places around the world,

**[00:14:52]** about ten locations in total.

**[00:14:54]** And the funny thing is, that Troja Bridge,

**[00:14:56]** we called it the engineers, who suddenly started

**[00:15:01]** the city council issued a tender for a new bridge,

**[00:15:04]** inspired by our concept.

**[00:15:06]** And what you see there looks similar

**[00:15:08]** to what we had at the exhibition,

**[00:15:10]** the Troja Bridge.

**[00:15:12]** Sometimes the future connects in a funny way like that.

**[00:15:15]** I was always interested in sustainability,

**[00:15:20]** where we need to solve many issues on our planet

**[00:15:24]** in terms of closing the loop of materials and energy.

**[00:15:30]** And improving the state of the atmosphere, for example.

**[00:15:35]** At the same time, I thought sustainable development

**[00:15:37]** is actually a good tool

**[00:15:39]** to help us move forward.

**[00:15:41]** So we don't just stay stuck,

**[00:15:43]** but can actually develop.

**[00:15:45]** And one of the directions of that development,

**[00:15:48]** for me, is into space.

**[00:15:50]** That motivated me.

**[00:15:52]** Then came the escape from ČV,

**[00:15:54]** the northern escape to study at the International Space University

**[00:15:57]** in Strasbourg.

**[00:15:59]** Thanks to that, one could get

**[00:16:02]** directly to California, to NASA JPL,

**[00:16:04]** and other space centers around the world.

**[00:16:09]** We did various research, like 3D printing on the moon.

**[00:16:12]** And it was funny that one could

**[00:16:16]** actually touch the results of that research here,

**[00:16:19]** when my friends from ČV and I

**[00:16:21]** built the first Czech 3D printed concrete element.

**[00:16:25]** It was then exhibited for some time

**[00:16:29]** at Střelničná and Náplavka.

**[00:16:31]** This is how it was set up and then, in the end,

**[00:16:34]** it looked like this, with the green parts of the facade.

**[00:16:39]** And we were doing, for example, for a meeting

**[00:16:42]** of the United Nations in Vienna,

**[00:16:44]** a whole series of demonstrations of

**[00:16:47]** what international space bases might look like

**[00:16:50]** on the moon, the so-called Moon Village,

**[00:16:52]** as we like to call it.

**[00:16:54]** So we dove into research

**[00:16:57]** on various habitats and infrastructure and such.

**[00:17:03]** On the moon, you really have a lot of

**[00:17:05]** different limitations and materials available.

**[00:17:08]** And one of the visions of Moon Village,

**[00:17:12]** for example, was to show how mining could happen in the craters,

**[00:17:14]** where robots could collect the material,

**[00:17:19]** bring it up, it would be processed there,

**[00:17:24]** water vapor would be released, and you'd get water from it.

**[00:17:27]** It's quite funny how you can see in the background

**[00:17:30]** the power plant on that hill.

**[00:17:34]** And actually, there are antennas there,

**[00:17:37]** which transmit electricity.

**[00:17:40]** It was funny that after about two years,

**[00:17:43]** a friend suddenly reached out,

**[00:17:47]** saying he has a team of top scientists from Malaysia,

**[00:17:49]** who are developing this exact technology

**[00:17:52]** for wireless energy transmission.

**[00:17:56]** He asked if I might want to help them with it.

**[00:17:59]** And right now, we're working with those people from Malaysia

**[00:18:02]** and Luxembourg to demonstrate

**[00:18:05]** how electricity could be transmitted 10 kilometers away

**[00:18:08]** on the moon using the same technology.

**[00:18:11]** It can also be used to keep drones flying longer,

**[00:18:14]** which normally last only 20 minutes on batteries.

**[00:18:16]** If you know Futureport,

**[00:18:18]** Martin Honaliček ran it.

**[00:18:22]** He organized fantastic events, for example at the exhibition grounds,

**[00:18:26]** packed with new technologies,

**[00:18:29]** super inspiring and with very interesting people.

**[00:18:41]** Then they actually held a more modest event,

**[00:18:44]** a version for Futureport Youth students.

**[00:18:47]** They invited Gary E from Blue Origin,

**[00:18:51]** who was developing the suborbital rocket,

**[00:18:55]** that Katy Perry flew on a week ago or so.

**[00:18:59]** When we met Gary after the lecture,

**[00:19:04]** he revealed they were preparing a new project.

**[00:19:07]** I mentioned we had done some projects on the moon,

**[00:19:12]** including various vehicles and such.

**[00:19:15]** He perked up and said,

**[00:19:17]** we need to agree on something, we have to agree.

**[00:19:20]** And indeed, about a month later, he invited us and ordered us,

**[00:19:24]** to design a concept for a Helium-3 mining base,

**[00:19:29]** which could be revolutionary for clean energy on our planet.

**[00:19:35]** Because now a new generation of fusion power plants is being prepared.

**[00:19:41]** They are starting to reach a positive energy balance,

**[00:19:43]** the energy balance,

**[00:19:45]** or it’s beginning to approach some,

**[00:19:52]** production level, and at that point it would be useful to have Helium available,

**[00:19:58]** for example from the moon, where it exists.

**[00:20:00]** In much larger quantities, and it could then be imported to our planet.

**[00:20:13]** It was funny that we worked on this in Smíchov, we moved to Prague 5 to Košíře,

**[00:20:24]** and it’s funny that in Czechia we have a 150-year tradition of mechanical engineering,

**[00:20:34]** and for example, Czech trams were a worldwide success.

**[00:20:39]** My grandfather was actually a tram designer, and those trams,

**[00:20:43]** I basically think the T3 is probably the most produced tram model in the world.

**[00:20:48]** And then it’s funny how this tradition is moving forward into the future,

**[00:20:56]** that here in Smíchov we are designing and inventing lunar transport vehicles.

**[00:21:06]** And part of that was the vision of New Prague on the moon.

**[00:21:11]** And that’s what came up in a TV interview on Nová, when they asked me,

**[00:21:15]** how we will live on the moon and what we will drive there.

**[00:21:19]** And since we are such a car-loving nation,

**[00:21:22]** we have the second highest number of cars produced per capita in the world,

**[00:21:25]** I think after Slovaks,

**[00:21:26]** we thought it would be great to create a vision,

**[00:21:31]** of what Škoda cars might look like in space one day.

**[00:21:36]** Then, when we started designing it,

**[00:21:39]** we thought it was great,

**[00:21:43]** so we could present it right away at some Czech base,

**[00:21:46]** that would be around it.

**[00:21:48]** And it really just came about as part of

**[00:21:51]** brainstorming with Nová TV,

**[00:21:54]** with the host, and in the end, we actually put together a presentation,

**[00:22:00]** where we showed a kind of basic base,

**[00:22:06]** which could be inspired by different parts of Prague.

**[00:22:10]** What you see in the middle is basically Wenceslas Square,

**[00:22:14]** and then you have the landing ramps of Říškov and Malešice.

**[00:22:21]** And once it's there,

**[00:22:23]** there will probably be logos of various breweries everywhere,

**[00:22:28]** I would expect there to be pubs inside.

**[00:22:32]** So we from Praha na to joined forces with Virtuplex,

**[00:22:39]** who operate fantastic virtual reality halls.

**[00:22:44]** And we made an event that launched Czech Space Week.

**[00:22:48]** We kept going to Virtuplex here in Počernice,

**[00:22:51]** until the guys said, hey, we want to build a new Virtuplex in Bratislava,

**[00:22:55]** and it will be the largest VR hall in the world,

**[00:22:58]** based on square meters, want to help us with it?

**[00:23:01]** And we agreed that we'd enjoy it,

**[00:23:04]** so we teamed up with them to create this new hall in Bratislava,

**[00:23:08]** now there's also a new one in Dubai, and basically Praha na měsíci

**[00:23:14]** is one of the main demo contents people can try there,

**[00:23:19]** and it works like a machine for the future,

**[00:23:22]** where people, like developers, can go through the project,

**[00:23:25]** or officials, before it's built,

**[00:23:28]** and compare different competition proposals side by side in real size.

**[00:23:33]** This is what the Praha na měsíci concept looks like,

**[00:23:37]** up close.

**[00:23:40]** We designed the rover Luniak,

**[00:23:44]** inspired by Škoda Eniak,

**[00:23:47]** and it's based on a NASA platform,

**[00:23:52]** like Volkswagen always takes a battery base

**[00:23:56]** and wheels and motor, then just adds the body,

**[00:23:59]** we approached it similarly.

**[00:24:02]** So we put together a cabin

**[00:24:05]** that would work like a camper,

**[00:24:08]** for example for a two-day mission, we added proper off-road wheels,

**[00:24:11]** since it's a Czech SUV after all,

**[00:24:14]** and basically it's also practically a Czech family car,

**[00:24:17]** for four people, with a big trunk.

**[00:24:20]** How it should be?

**[00:24:23]** You can connect it right to those modules,

**[00:24:26]** through these crawl tunnels,

**[00:24:29]** or you have a hatch at the back.

**[00:24:32]** These spacesuits you see here,

**[00:24:35]** are good because NASA designed them so

**[00:24:38]** you crawl into them through the backpack.

**[00:24:41]** The backpack actually connects to the space station,

**[00:24:44]** and opens inward.

**[00:24:47]** So you crawl through the frame of the backpack,

**[00:24:50]** put it on,

**[00:24:53]** and then the backpack snaps shut behind you.

**[00:24:56]** The advantage is that you don't bring dirt inside.

**[00:24:59]** Because here, for example now,

**[00:25:02]** there's a lot of dust flying around when it's dry,

**[00:25:05]** but that dust isn't as troublesome

**[00:25:08]** as lunar dust, which acts more like asbestos,

**[00:25:11]** easily clogging your lungs or electronics.

**[00:25:17]** Considering it all started as a joke,

**[00:25:20]** it's funny how it made headlines

**[00:25:23]** and main news, even reaching the castle.

**[00:25:26]** And funny how we have such a visionary tradition here,

**[00:25:29]** twelve years ago from Princess Libuše,

**[00:25:32]** when she began with,

**[00:25:35]** how we have beautiful legends here,

**[00:25:38]** she said it would be good to stop arguing here,

**[00:25:41]** and it was funny,

**[00:25:44]** because it was during some pandemic.

**[00:25:47]** There was an epidemic, politicians were arguing,

**[00:25:50]** and they came to Princess Libuše asking,

**[00:25:53]** what should we do, gathering many people.

**[00:25:56]** But she said, let's stop arguing,

**[00:25:59]** and let's build a residence,

**[00:26:02]** where we unite,

**[00:26:05]** and one day its glory could reach the stars.

**[00:26:08]** And it's quite funny here,

**[00:26:12]** because now, after twelve hundred years,

**[00:26:15]** we can finally start talking about it seriously.

**[00:26:18]** And meanwhile, for example, Oklahoma was founded,

**[00:26:21]** there's a New Prague in America, in Oklahoma.

**[00:26:24]** A friend simply studied there in high school,

**[00:26:27]** he moved from Most to Oklahoma,

**[00:26:30]** to Prague to study high school,

**[00:26:33]** because there were some exchanges there.

**[00:26:36]** And basically, his Prague often ranked

**[00:26:40]** in the top 10 cities to live in worldwide.

**[00:26:48]** We have more good cities here,

**[00:26:51]** so I wouldn't dismiss Brno for Mars or something like that.

**[00:26:54]** It's funny that this mix

**[00:27:00]** then caught the attention of many media worldwide,

**[00:27:03]** because we combined cars,

**[00:27:06]** virtually added technology, Prague, and so on.

**[00:27:09]** And suddenly people read about it somewhere in India.

**[00:27:12]** It was funny when someone just saw

**[00:27:15]** some spilled tea,

**[00:27:18]** and there was only the word Ludiak

**[00:27:21]** and the picture.

**[00:27:24]** That really amused me.

**[00:27:27]** And it's good that we have

**[00:27:30]** a new generation of young people here,

**[00:27:33]** who are into technology

**[00:27:36]** and the future and space.

**[00:27:39]** We have Amálka at home, who keeps building rockets,

**[00:27:42]** planes, little houses, dog collars, and so on.

**[00:27:45]** And here we talked

**[00:27:48]** that you have the same at home,

**[00:27:51]** a little enthusiast.

**[00:27:54]** So it's good

**[00:27:57]** to give the youngest generation maximum support,

**[00:28:00]** give them LEGO,

**[00:28:03]** tablets, computers, VR glasses, and let them start creating.

**[00:28:06]** Or with plasticine, no problem.

**[00:28:09]** And I think we are all

**[00:28:12]** naturally creative, but maybe the school system

**[00:28:15]** and the pressure from the environment unnecessarily take away our creativity,

**[00:28:18]** because someone tells you,

**[00:28:21]** you don't have it, because I don't know,

**[00:28:24]** Helichovka only takes 20 people,

**[00:28:27]** and the art academy only four.

**[00:28:30]** So you can't really study art here.

**[00:28:33]** And yet everyone is talented.

**[00:28:36]** Basically, the DNA is just about developing it further.

**[00:28:39]** So in my opinion, it's good

**[00:28:42]** to invest as much as possible in education.

**[00:28:45]** And my friend Aleš Smetana was talking nonsense,

**[00:28:48]** that we should start a high school focused on technology and space.

**[00:28:51]** I have a bit of a fear about that,

**[00:28:54]** that it will be hard to put together.

**[00:28:57]** Some people told us it's economic suicide,

**[00:29:00]** but on the other hand, I got such an education,

**[00:29:03]** when I graduated from those two universities,

**[00:29:06]** that it seems a shame not to be involved further,

**[00:29:09]** and I think that

**[00:29:12]** the competencies we have here in our country,

**[00:29:15]** the fact that we have a successful emerging space industry,

**[00:29:18]** it is necessary, in my opinion,

**[00:29:22]** to make a project out of it

**[00:29:27]** that could have great potential for the future.

**[00:29:33]** To support education in space technologies

**[00:29:37]** and these competencies across the whole country.

**[00:29:45]** The Prague on the Moon ended up

**[00:29:48]** in the Space Center Houston Museum.

**[00:30:00]** It's fantastic, and I don't know, Tomáš, you also look for projects through it in your world, right?

**[00:30:08]** Like in America, you connect with some agents and have a chance to get projects,

**[00:30:16]** which a normal person wouldn't get through emails or phone calls.

**[00:30:24]** In my case, I now have, I don't know, thirty people

**[00:30:34]** I'm connected with there, and when it was about a thousand,

**[00:30:40]** you already felt that it actually generates opportunities.

**[00:30:50]** So many people say they don't use LinkedIn, so maybe they don't need it,

**[00:30:55]** but when you do business, it's really a handy tool.

**[00:30:58]** And for example, this company Fingorbital, I got to it purely through LinkedIn.

**[00:31:05]** I started talking to a girl who works on space projects,

**[00:31:11]** she said she was promoting a new startup somewhere in Colorado.

**[00:31:16]** Now I look at it and find out that one of the founders is Czech.

**[00:31:21]** Vojta Holub. Doctor Vojtěch Holub.

**[00:31:25]** And I thought that’s really interesting, so I wanted to find out what they do.

**[00:31:30]** Basically, they founded a space construction company.

**[00:31:38]** And Vojta Holub is a very skilled technician,

**[00:31:43]** who invented how to build new generations of space stations

**[00:31:48]** using robots and electron beam welding.

**[00:31:52]** And in the end, when I saw it, I said,

**[00:31:55]** but I'd really like to help you with that, and we were chatting, and they told me right then,

**[00:31:59]** that they were looking for architects, so it was a good coincidence.

**[00:32:03]** So I just wrote in a LinkedIn chat with a few people,

**[00:32:08]** and in the end, they said, great, you can be our architecture director.

**[00:32:12]** And the funny thing is, after we worked on it for maybe two years,

**[00:32:18]** a year and a half for free, we managed to get

**[00:32:23]** mainly two space experiments in cooperation with NASA,

**[00:32:27]** and we actually created the world's first autonomous slope grooming system.

**[00:32:36]** And that's how it turned out.

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**[00:34:40]** And so on.

**[00:34:42]** Basically, thanks to Starship and other rockets, it's possible to send

**[00:34:47]** components into a regular orbit around the moon,

**[00:34:52]** if you buy stacked boards at Ikea,

**[00:34:56]** that's simply the best method to transport even buildings there.

**[00:35:03]** You can build new generation orbital stations from it,

**[00:35:07]** which can have various shapes, not just spheres,

**[00:35:10]** and thanks to that, you can achieve the largest volumes,

**[00:35:14]** bigger than what was possible until now.

**[00:35:16]** And because of that, it's no longer just about

**[00:35:18]** surviving somewhere in space,

**[00:35:22]** you can start thinking about

**[00:35:25]** how to expand the biosphere or even human culture there.

**[00:35:29]** We also focus a lot on sports buildings.

**[00:35:32]** For example, I was invited to London to the company AECOM

**[00:35:36]** to help design the Rio de Janeiro Olympics,

**[00:35:39]** or futuristic buildings for the FIFA Championship in Qatar.

**[00:35:46]** And friends even built those.

**[00:35:48]** Then Pavel Hadík, with whom I worked on the Doria stadium for the Olympics,

**[00:35:53]** moved to Qatar,

**[00:35:55]** where they built the football stadiums.

**[00:35:58]** The funny thing is, these new generation modules

**[00:36:03]** could be so big that you could even play football inside.

**[00:36:09]** It's a Czech tradition,

**[00:36:11]** that when Czechs go somewhere, they bring a football,

**[00:36:15]** and then they make a little garden there,

**[00:36:18]** and we'll get to gardening later.

**[00:36:25]** You can build those modules even on the moon

**[00:36:27]** and then you can play something like lunar basketball there,

**[00:36:30]** where you can jump much higher,

**[00:36:33]** than Shaquille O'Neal and Michael Jordan.

**[00:36:40]** Or you can break records in high push-ups there.

**[00:36:43]** This is Clara's cousin,

**[00:36:45]** who was the second best in the world at high push-ups.

**[00:36:51]** Or our friend Irča,

**[00:36:53]** who was at the Tokyo Olympics,

**[00:36:56]** and can demonstrate the javelin throw.

**[00:37:02]** In that video, you saw a test of robotic welders.

**[00:37:07]** It's basically a Swiss army knife for construction in space.

**[00:37:11]** The electron beam allows welding

**[00:37:14]** or cutting various materials.

**[00:37:18]** You can even print metals with it,

**[00:37:22]** or from lunar dust.

**[00:37:25]** You can strengthen materials on the moon with it,

**[00:37:28]** like roads.

**[00:37:32]** You can also scan with it,

**[00:37:37]** using X-rays.

**[00:37:39]** For example, the welds,

**[00:37:41]** to see if they are done well enough,

**[00:37:44]** so you can pressurize it and it holds together.

**[00:37:49]** It was recently found to have great potential

**[00:37:52]** for a wide range of applications.

**[00:37:54]** It can be used for servicing satellites,

**[00:37:57]** various repairs in space,

**[00:37:59]** or solving problems with space debris.

**[00:38:03]** Or even more ambitious things,

**[00:38:05]** like building orbital docks

**[00:38:08]** and similar structures.

**[00:38:11]** They just managed to get a grant from NASA,

**[00:38:15]** which selected from thousands of proposals,

**[00:38:18]** and chose ours as one of the few,

**[00:38:22]** to build orbital docks.

**[00:38:27]** In the future, such technology could build

**[00:38:31]** structures for long-distance space travel.

**[00:38:39]** When you see, for example, in Star Trek,

**[00:38:43]** how they build the Enterprise,

**[00:38:46]** there's a fantastic sequence on YouTube,

**[00:38:50]** where you see the captains watching the construction

**[00:38:59]** and in front of them, robots start assembling

**[00:39:03]** the different parts of the station and the panels

**[00:39:07]** and the interior and welding it together.

**[00:39:10]** Basically, that's the technology we're working on.

**[00:39:13]** It's actually quite funny.

**[00:39:18]** This is just one of those things where it’s like,

**[00:39:22]** often with space projects,

**[00:39:26]** you think they've already invented it in sci-fi movies.

**[00:39:32]** This here is a funny concept

**[00:39:36]** of the omnidirectional cylinder from NASA from the 90s,

**[00:39:40]** and basically, with such technology, these structures can start being built.

**[00:39:44]** And once you build the stations,

**[00:39:48]** if adequate propulsion is available,

**[00:39:52]** you can then send them further into space.

**[00:40:00]** I've always thought that we're quite beginners in space,

**[00:40:07]** and we should always maintain some healthy respect.

**[00:40:10]** I'd prefer if we took it step by step and started building something on the moon.

**[00:40:19]** Then there are other experts who say we should go straight to Mars,

**[00:40:23]** and I think that's nonsense because right now it's still a one-way ticket,

**[00:40:28]** and it can have quite discouraging scenarios.

**[00:40:35]** So I'd prefer if infrastructure on the moon was gradually built,

**[00:40:40]** testing all the system functions, the vehicles, and so on,

**[00:40:44]** because if we needed to operate with a base,

**[00:40:47]** the repairman on the moon can always be more readily available.

**[00:40:51]** And if something goes wrong, you're home in two days.

**[00:40:54]** Whereas from Mars, if there's a problem, the return window might be once a year.

**[00:41:01]** So Mars is like your bigger crush, in my opinion.

**[00:41:06]** It's funny that it's the only planet we know that's inhabited by artificial intelligence.

**[00:41:13]** And this AI sends us nice selfies

**[00:41:19]** in the form of various robots, which I’ve seen directly at JPL being built.

**[00:41:23]** It was great to see the branches on the suits running around that robot.

**[00:41:28]** It's a big off-road vehicle.

**[00:41:33]** And this way you can see where we already have these AI robotic friends.

**[00:41:42]** On Mars, it’s interesting that it really depends on where you are,

**[00:41:49]** because near the equator, temperatures are quite manageable.

**[00:41:53]** So it’s somewhat comparable to our planet.

**[00:42:00]** And also, if you’re in the lowlands, radiation is lower,

**[00:42:03]** because the atmospheric pressure is higher there.

**[00:42:08]** Then there are fascinating geological formations.

**[00:42:12]** Like way over to the left, there's the Olympus Mons volcano, as big as Poland.

**[00:42:20]** So there are lots of interesting places, and you have plenty of material available

**[00:42:31]** to work with it in the long term.

**[00:42:35]** I helped with NASA experiments called analog testing,

**[00:42:40]** where robots, astronauts, and habitats were taken and tested together.

**[00:42:44]** They tested it all together in the Farizona desert.

**[00:42:48]** I actually put together a research team on artificial gravity at NASA JPL.

**[00:42:56]** I even worked with Buzz Aldrin, who has been on the moon

**[00:43:00]** and is actively working to help humanity go even further, like to Mars.

**[00:43:06]** We developed various concepts for space ships to travel to asteroids or Mars,

**[00:43:14]** which might use solar electric propulsion and artificial gravity.

**[00:43:21]** We also conducted various experiments.

**[00:43:24]** And that brings us to gardening, as I promised.

**[00:43:28]** That's a Czech specialty.

**[00:43:30]** Even the Earth University here in Sudole is working on space greenhouses.

**[00:43:35]** For me, it was always a challenge

**[00:43:38]** not to reduce space missions to just some American flying there and planting a flag.

**[00:43:43]** It seems to me that it's more a story about our entire planet.

**[00:43:46]** We waited here a billion years to evolve a bit,

**[00:43:50]** to grow up from cells and bacteria.

**[00:43:54]** And basically, we can move forward in small steps.

**[00:44:00]** But I see it as our entire biosphere.

**[00:44:05]** It shouldn't just be about people.

**[00:44:08]** We are just part of the biosphere,

**[00:44:10]** along with other animals and plants.

**[00:44:15]** And it's always good to think about it as a symbiosis,

**[00:44:18]** where we move forward together with shared strength.

**[00:44:21]** I've always liked space greenhouses.

**[00:44:27]** For example, with the team that built the huge Biosphere greenhouse in Arizona,

**[00:44:30]** we, along with the European Space Agency

**[00:44:36]** and other organizations, started researching

**[00:44:41]** ecosystems and their technologies for space.

**[00:44:46]** We did this research in London and Switzerland.

**[00:44:51]** Then we took part of a building that Coca-Cola used before

**[00:44:56]** to make sodas in Lausanne.

**[00:45:02]** We converted part of it into a space research center.

**[00:45:05]** Now it looks just like NASA there.

**[00:45:09]** They test various technologies, like different bioreactors

**[00:45:12]** and other things that also have applications in industries like cosmetics.

**[00:45:22]** Things for water purification or extracting certain essential oils and so on.

**[00:45:28]** These things also have applications here with us.

**[00:45:33]** For example, we worked on research of green walls.

**[00:45:38]** And we really enjoyed that.

**[00:45:41]** The air in London is also quite bad.

**[00:45:45]** It is estimated that annually, pollution from cars kills 40,000 people in London.

**[00:45:51]** In Prague, it's said to be about 500 per year.

**[00:45:55]** And that's comparable to how many people cars kill or maim directly.

**[00:46:02]** Basically, because of the air pollution from diesel engines and such,

**[00:46:07]** the damage is as severe as with those people, with the cancers.

**[00:46:12]** One way is to switch to clean mobility.

**[00:46:18]** Another is to improve the air quality using greenery

**[00:46:23]** or other technologies, like cleaning facades,

**[00:46:26]** which can now be bought here in the Czech Republic.

**[00:46:29]** These are made by Czech companies, top-notch technology.

**[00:46:32]** When the sun shines on them, they simply remove smog from the streets, the air.

**[00:46:40]** We also invested in the company Biotecture,

**[00:46:45]** which at that time was the most successful British company for green walls.

**[00:46:51]** And already then, their products were delivered worldwide,

**[00:46:55]** to places like Dubai, Norway, everywhere.

**[00:46:58]** We did various experiments with them,

**[00:47:01]** inventing new generations of green walls,

**[00:47:04]** which would also clean the air, for example in offices,

**[00:47:07]** where the air is filtered directly by the plants.

**[00:47:13]** We also made different facades, for example on buildings in London.

**[00:47:19]** In the end, it turned out that we do a lot of offices,

**[00:47:23]** for example here in the Czech Republic, and we often like green walls there too.

**[00:47:28]** It turned out amusingly that the company Lycos from Moravia,

**[00:47:33]** ended up benefiting by taking the Biotecture technology,

**[00:47:37]** and started distributing it here in the Czech Republic.

**[00:47:39]** So after Petr Štefek recommended it from us,

**[00:47:43]** suddenly many of the green walls you see here

**[00:47:48]** are actually the technologies we recommended from Britain.

**[00:47:54]** And eventually Lycos bought the patent and is now developing it here in the Czech Republic.

**[00:47:59]** So they basically took over the research from Biotecture in Britain to the Czech Republic

**[00:48:04]** and are pushing it forward, which is great.

**[00:48:08]** What we also started with some friends in London,

**[00:48:16]** just over coffee, can now help improve air quality here in the Czech Republic to some extent.

**[00:48:24]** At the same time, many of these technologies can be used for water purification,

**[00:48:29]** and this is the BioWise project, which we developed together with a consortium

**[00:48:36]** within the European Union. I'm actually wearing the t-shirt from the project we worked on.

**[00:48:41]** We managed to create a system that can detect

**[00:48:47]** mycobacterial contamination. You don't have to send it to labs on our planet,

**[00:48:52]** but directly to the ISS or Gateway, for example, and you can analyze the sample on site

**[00:48:58]** to find out if it needs to be cleaned in some way.

**[00:49:04]** Then there's direct water purification

**[00:49:10]** and testing by the astronauts. And things that were expensive

**[00:49:17]** and large have been reduced and made cheaper through this research,

**[00:49:21]** so now the water purification device can also be bought

**[00:49:29]** for some terrestrial purposes.

**[00:49:38]** This is a cool project we also did for the European Union,

**[00:49:42]** called Eden ISS. Here, technologies for greenhouse environments

**[00:49:51]** were developed both for space and for testing in Antarctica.

**[00:49:55]** Two containers were filled in Bremen,

**[00:50:00]** with technologies from Italy to Sweden for growing plants.

**[00:50:05]** And then they were sent to the Niemeyer German station in Antarctica.

**[00:50:11]** Our colleague Polcá was there as an astronaut even through the Antarctic winter.

**[00:50:18]** It was so productive that soon they didn't know what to do with all the vegetables.

**[00:50:31]** I worked on the space part, the space version,

**[00:50:38]** with colleagues in Italy, Vienna, and Germany,

**[00:50:43]** including the company Liquifer in Vienna.

**[00:50:47]** I designed how to make the main structure look,

**[00:50:53]** combining an inflatable part of the module,

**[00:50:59]** which allows us to have a much larger volume than what fits into the rocket,

**[00:51:04]** combined with pre-integrated rigid parts,

**[00:51:09]** where all these systems are housed.

**[00:51:13]** And yet it is covered against radiation and micrometeoroids,

**[00:51:20]** with a 3D-printed cover and a brick-like cover,

**[00:51:28]** which protects against radiation.

**[00:51:32]** These are special bricks that could be made by sintering dust,

**[00:51:41]** using concentrated sunlight.

**[00:51:45]** This is the Regolite project, which was done here in the European Union.

**[00:51:51]** It's great that robots can then stack these special bricks

**[00:51:58]** into various shapes, allowing us to build structures.

**[00:52:03]** If we are very successful, Prague could be built not only on the moon,

**[00:52:11]** but someday maybe on Mars and beyond.

**[00:52:14]** This is the vision we created for the Propragensis exhibition

**[00:52:20]** at the beginning of 2005.

**[00:52:23]** I put in a quarter of a million and the date 2255.

**[00:52:28]** It's funny that whenever I go to the microphone in the evening and see 2255,

**[00:52:32]** I completely daydream and think about what else we need to do today for the future.

**[00:52:38]** Sometimes the best ideas come between eleven and twelve at night.

**[00:52:42]** That's why I have trouble getting up for your super actions here.

**[00:52:50]** Funny thing is, Pavel Konečný came to us,

**[00:52:53]** who runs Neuron Soundware, a company focused on artificial intelligence for Promysl.

**[00:52:59]** He has an idea to build Martian houses too.

**[00:53:04]** Basically, wooden buildings of a new generation.

**[00:53:08]** For the Czech countryside.

**[00:53:11]** If we help him put the market together.

**[00:53:13]** So we helped him a bit, and I'm curious,

**[00:53:18]** when we'll see this in a typical Czech village,

**[00:53:22]** as a new Czech village house.

**[00:53:26]** Inspired by what Czechs are doing in space.

**[00:53:32]** The advantage is that it's an ecological wooden structure,

**[00:53:35]** and with this geometry, you save a lot of material,

**[00:53:38]** because it's more efficient statically than classic box shapes.

**[00:53:45]** So you can have more spacious interiors for less money.

**[00:53:50]** So it made sense,

**[00:53:57]** to save material and then energy during operation.

**[00:54:05]** And when we talked about the younger generation,

**[00:54:09]** at my home it looks like a Lego showroom,

**[00:54:12]** because you can't walk there without slippers anymore.

**[00:54:15]** It's like a matter of life and death to go barefoot there.

**[00:54:20]** And the funny thing was that suddenly it came to our table,

**[00:54:25]** that Lego wants to send a thousand Lego minifigures into space.

**[00:54:31]** And if we could help them somehow put it together.

**[00:54:34]** At that time, Amálka and I were already playing space missions like this.

**[00:54:44]** We have this funny Lego Duplo space convertible at home.

**[00:54:54]** Then it was funny that we designed about seven different concepts for Lego,

**[00:54:58]** and they actually chose the one that looks like a Space Shuttle convertible.

**[00:55:03]** What you see so far.

**[00:55:05]** And it was made here in Prague, in Dejvice,

**[00:55:10]** at the robotics and cybernetics center of ČVUT,

**[00:55:14]** which has some of the best 3D printers for robots in the country.

**[00:55:18]** The whole floor has 3D printers, lasers, and such.

**[00:55:22]** With their help, they managed to assemble a 1.6-meter rocket shuttle,

**[00:55:29]** which can carry three hundred Lego minifigures and launch them into the stratosphere,

**[00:55:34]** where it basically looks like it's already in orbit.

**[00:55:39]** And in the end, it was a competition for Czech and Slovak children,

**[00:55:45]** and it launched from the Partizánske airport near Trenčín.

**[00:55:51]** And if you've ever wondered what it's like to go up with a balloon,

**[00:55:54]** when I have it on the kids' counter, it's quite a ride.

**[00:55:58]** You normally shoot up like this and suddenly it looks like

**[00:56:04]** you're starting to be one foot in outer space.

**[00:56:09]** And then, when you're up there, it really looks like those shots from CSS.

**[00:56:16]** And when I pulled it out after it landed,

**[00:56:23]** I immediately took the card from the GoPro,

**[00:56:28]** loaded it onto the computer, this popped up,

**[00:56:32]** I sent it to space.com and it became the picture of the day

**[00:56:35]** on the main space server in the world.

**[00:56:39]** And we even surpassed the SpaceX launch, which sent up about 2000 satellites,

**[00:56:43]** and no one cared anymore.

**[00:56:46]** So here are the guys from Skladná, they're basically real Czech LEGO astronauts,

**[00:56:51]** because here we have one of the biggest LEGO factories in the world,

**[00:56:55]** and these Skladná guys made a breakthrough worldwide.

**[00:57:01]** And this is what it looked like live.

**[00:57:08]** This is what it looks like when the balloon bursts at 36 kilometers.

**[00:57:16]** And it also turns into little pieces, those rubber bits.

**[00:57:20]** Then you go down gently and land like this in the branches.

**[00:57:26]** And then we searched through various contacts for the castellan

**[00:57:31]** of Trenčín Castle, and we found a guy in the village,

**[00:57:37]** who specializes in risky tree cutting

**[00:57:41]** and has all the gear for climbing about 20 meters up a tree.

**[00:57:45]** And he managed to save it.

**[00:57:49]** And the funny thing is, in the end it won about five different awards

**[00:57:54]** for the most creative advertisement and so on.

**[00:57:58]** Basically, it was written about everywhere in the world.

**[00:58:04]** This is a really rewarding topic because LEGO inspires us all.

**[00:58:10]** Here you can see what it looked like on space.com that day.

**[00:58:14]** And LEGO eventually decided to make the campaign again the next year.

**[00:58:20]** So a new contest was made, and it was done so that

**[00:58:26]** last year you could predefine which little figure you wanted to send.

**[00:58:32]** So you could say it would have pink hair, purple pants, and tattoos.

**[00:58:38]** And they really made an army of these space tourists here.

**[00:58:43]** They weren't such professionals anymore, but really the most diverse, colorful bunch.

**[00:58:50]** And they threw a party in orbit and flew again.

**[00:58:56]** And again, we got back to inspiring people, and this is the very latest project,

**[00:59:02]** which you can now see in Prostějov. This was on Saturday in Prostějov.

**[00:59:08]** I was talking with Česká spořitelna, who wanted to celebrate their 200th anniversary

**[00:59:16]** and were thinking about how to do something that could somehow inspire people

**[00:59:24]** and increase the prosperity of our nation for the future.

**[00:59:29]** And it's great that they have a team here focused on the prosperity of this nation.

**[00:59:35]** So that people here can have a better life, that's truly unique.

**[00:59:42]** We just brainstormed how to make it not just for people from Prague,

**[00:59:48]** or just one small thing.

**[00:59:53]** Funny thing is, for the 50th anniversary of the savings bank, they built the Rudolfinum and gave it to Prague for one crown.

**[01:00:00]** So I said, let's make a new Rudolfinum 2.0,

**[01:00:04]** but in a way that reaches the most people.

**[01:00:08]** From that came this kind of mobile pavilion, which is 500 m2

**[01:00:12]** and tours through more than 10 Czech cities across various regions.

**[01:00:16]** It starts in Prague and then goes to Budějovice, Jablonec, and so on.

**[01:00:20]** We created an exhibition of Czech innovations there,

**[01:00:25]** from nanotechnologies to space, and in the second part you have interesting lectures

**[01:00:30]** where, for example...

**[01:00:34]** There was a really great event with Aleš Svoboda,

**[01:00:38]** our new Czech astronaut preparing for space flights,

**[01:00:42]** who was selected from about 20,000 people. A great guy.

**[01:00:49]** I myself was surprised,

**[01:00:53]** at how many successes the Czech Republic has.

**[01:00:59]** For example, when I look at nanotechnologies,

**[01:01:03]** here in the Czech Republic, in Liberec,

**[01:01:07]** there were absolute pioneers in industrial production of nanotechnologies,

**[01:01:11]** and now companies in the Czech Republic are making a lot of very interesting products.

**[01:01:15]** From bedding for allergy sufferers,

**[01:01:19]** against certain dust mites and so on,

**[01:01:23]** to cleaning coatings for facades or water purification technologies.

**[01:01:27]** These are things recently developed at Czech universities

**[01:01:31]** and can already be bought everywhere, maybe worldwide.

**[01:01:35]** We really showed these products, how they are made, and even a map of the country,

**[01:01:39]** showing ten universities where you can study this.

**[01:01:43]** Basically, these are things

**[01:01:47]** that when primary schools visit, the kids suddenly see

**[01:01:51]** that cool things are happening here, they can get involved,

**[01:01:55]** and there were even more things,

**[01:01:59]** like microscopes around the corner.

**[01:02:03]** Few people know that a third of electron microscopes are made in the Czech Republic,

**[01:02:07]** we are leaders in this, and without that you can't produce chips and such.

**[01:02:11]** Then you go further and see that we are one of nine countries in the world

**[01:02:15]** that can design and build an airplane

**[01:02:19]** or a nuclear reactor, a nuclear power plant, and we do this for many other countries,

**[01:02:23]** or a satellite. So basically, for me it was

**[01:02:27]** also really optimistic to get involved in it.

**[01:02:31]** And then there are lectures about entrepreneurship,

**[01:02:35]** and to start a company,

**[01:02:39]** you need a lot of optimism. Luckily, I started my business when

**[01:02:43]** I was still young and naive, because if I had known how tough it would be,

**[01:02:47]** I wouldn't have jumped into it, so I don't push it.

**[01:02:51]** Especially since I don't like getting up early in the morning,

**[01:02:55]** that was one of the main motivations for me to start a business.

**[01:02:59]** Fortunately, I discovered things gradually,

**[01:03:03]** like how to properly handle accounting and so on.

**[01:03:07]** But you don't just start a business

**[01:03:11]** if you don't have enough enthusiastic people around you and some

**[01:03:15]** optimism. So nowadays, if someone just turns on the news,

**[01:03:19]** they get depressed and would rather go somewhere

**[01:03:23]** as safe as possible

**[01:03:27]** and not jump into any entrepreneurial adventure.

**[01:03:31]** But I think that when someone

**[01:03:35]** catches an optimistic spark, then

**[01:03:39]** they can really throw themselves into entrepreneurship.

**[01:03:43]** And mainly, it's about

**[01:03:47]** somehow supporting Czech companies here,

**[01:03:51]** to help improve the balance

**[01:03:55]** of our state budget. Because when we're 200 billion in the red,

**[01:03:59]** we won't fix it by just exchanging

**[01:04:03]** insurance with each other, but we have to focus on exports, go on LinkedIn,

**[01:04:07]** write to someone in America, Australia, and try to sell something from

**[01:04:11]** what we make here abroad.

**[01:04:15]** I think it's good, like this summer, to support

**[01:04:19]** people from a young age,

**[01:04:23]** and now it's great to see a new generation of people

**[01:04:27]** who are interested in peace, I'm totally excited about it.

**[01:04:31]** For example, the Lazár team, they are high schoolers, 16-17 years old,

**[01:04:35]** and they already sent their first satellites into space in December.

**[01:04:39]** And there was a great event recently,

**[01:04:43]** organized by the Ministry of Transport, where the French brought the Airbus

**[01:04:47]** in which astronauts train,

**[01:04:51]** and they sent 26 astronauts,

**[01:04:55]** YouTubers, Aleš Svoboda the Astronaut, and others.

**[01:04:59]** So 26 young Czech students, aged 14-15,

**[01:05:03]** up to the height, so they actually had a chance to fly there

**[01:05:07]** and do various experiments.

**[01:05:11]** When I saw how they are at the airport in that congress center

**[01:05:15]** and right next to them is the planet and they have those flight uniforms,

**[01:05:19]** it just looked like the Space Academy from some movie.

**[01:05:23]** And those people are just totally pumped up.

**[01:05:27]** Like a 15-year-old girl who could go straight to NASA

**[01:05:31]** and another boy who has already been accepted to Oxford.

**[01:05:35]** Yeah, come on.

**[01:05:39]** That's what we have.

**[01:05:43]** Here you have a chance to see where the nearest deliveries are.

**[01:05:47]** If you're interested, near Prague the closest is Kolín.

**[01:05:51]** I was thinking I'd definitely like to cover Budějovice.

**[01:05:55]** It's on a beautiful huge square.

**[01:05:59]** So if you were going somewhere to a cottage

**[01:06:03]** or visiting grandma in Jihlava,

**[01:06:07]** it would be great to combine it with a visit to the exhibition.

**[01:06:11]** Thanks.

**[01:06:13]** And we still have 45 seconds and there's a unique chance to connect

**[01:06:17]** for example on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and so on.

**[01:06:21]** I would be very glad if we connect as much as possible,

**[01:06:25]** because without cooperation no one will get anywhere further.

**[01:06:29]** So thanks for the lecture.

**[01:06:33]** I always enjoy it a lot. I have these waves.

**[01:06:37]** Waves where you put people to sleep?

**[01:06:39]** No, no, no. I always feel like you tell it

**[01:06:43]** with such ease.

**[01:06:47]** Like here I wrote something and here this and here that.

**[01:06:51]** And it's that easy.

**[01:06:53]** Well, that's exactly it.

**[01:06:55]** Only no one tells you that it's easy.

**[01:06:57]** So.

**[01:06:59]** Then people think these things are complicated.

**[01:07:01]** When I started doing innovation, I met Luboš there,

**[01:07:05]** and with you, those things work.

**[01:07:07]** With Jirka Kus, with Lenka Minářová.

**[01:07:09]** And these are all real people doing incredible things.

**[01:07:13]** And exactly, if you go to them, whether it's Liberac or whatever,

**[01:07:17]** they will welcome you, show you everything, explain this and that.

**[01:07:22]** They invite you to lunch.

**[01:07:24]** It's actually quite an interesting community.

**[01:07:27]** And honestly, I don't know why it doesn't happen more often.

**[01:07:31]** I think it does happen.

**[01:07:34]** Before I get into the many questions, I got one.

**[01:07:40]** Please try to describe how you actually do business and make money.

**[01:07:48]** Is it just from those chats, or do you get a grant from NASA or something?

**[01:07:52]** How does it actually work?

**[01:07:54]** For example, we often subsidize explanations because I see it as an investment in humanity's future.

**[01:07:59]** Yes, because I enjoy it.

**[01:08:01]** So I put in the free time that comes from freedom,

**[01:08:06]** when you do some commercial work and have some free time left.

**[01:08:11]** But often it's like this: you do offices for Porsche, Hornbach,

**[01:08:18]** and some other companies.

**[01:08:22]** We've done work for two Dafuns and about 20 such corporations.

**[01:08:25]** And for example, when I did offices for Ogilvy, Ogilvy & Madr,

**[01:08:29]** that’s how I earned money for the space university.

**[01:08:32]** So often you subsidize it this way.

**[01:08:36]** Or with websites, logos, and design.

**[01:08:40]** That's something I personally enjoy,

**[01:08:43]** because I started making a living and doing business with it at 16.

**[01:08:47]** And I've been doing it ever since, up to now.

**[01:08:50]** And as the tools improve gradually, it becomes more fun.

**[01:08:53]** And just recently, we met Max at Čundr.

**[01:08:57]** A complete crazy coincidence.

**[01:08:59]** We suddenly had a bunch of websites to do at once.

**[01:09:02]** Two or three weeks ago, we were at Čundr in Brdy.

**[01:09:06]** And I was just complaining to my friend Aleš there

**[01:09:10]** that we can't keep up with the websites and Jana has no time.

**[01:09:15]** And now it's a lot.

**[01:09:18]** And suddenly, we met two more guys at Čundr.

**[01:09:22]** We talked about meeting again in the evening,

**[01:09:26]** to contribute somewhere at the summit, TOK,

**[01:09:28]** the highest peak of the Central Bohemian Region.

**[01:09:32]** And we all actually met there by the campfires.

**[01:09:36]** And when Max and I talked, we found out

**[01:09:39]** he's also a designer and looking for work, and that he designed interfaces

**[01:09:43]** for five electric cars.

**[01:09:47]** And we realized he could actually work with us someday.

**[01:09:53]** Markéta asks, I have a question,

**[01:09:57]** do you use shared tools for your designs?

**[01:10:00]** So it probably had to be said.

**[01:10:02]** What exactly to use it for?

**[01:10:04]** For those, probably proposals.

**[01:10:06]** I think it makes sense

**[01:10:08]** to use it

**[01:10:10]** for inspiration at the start,

**[01:10:12]** then for partial

**[01:10:14]** partial

**[01:10:16]** parts

**[01:10:18]** of those

**[01:10:20]** concepts,

**[01:10:22]** designs and such.

**[01:10:24]** But usually you have to put it together yourself afterwards.

**[01:10:27]** I've heard it several times already

**[01:10:30]** and yet I'll ask.

**[01:10:32]** Look, because here are questions

**[01:10:34]** about time horizons

**[01:10:36]** and that basically nothing is happening around it.

**[01:10:38]** Hello, Martin is still asking.

**[01:10:40]** The colonization of space and the moon

**[01:10:42]** is just deafening silence, but practically nothing is happening.

**[01:10:44]** Why is that?

**[01:10:48]** Well, why do you say

**[01:10:50]** that nothing is happening?

**[01:10:52]** It's good to check out

**[01:10:54]** news, sections, technology, science,

**[01:10:56]** and space, and there you see

**[01:10:58]** that quite a lot is happening.

**[01:11:00]** It's just like if it

**[01:11:02]** gets lost in the information.

**[01:11:04]** It just slips by, for example.

**[01:11:06]** That's what you meant when you talked about

**[01:11:08]** looking at the news,

**[01:11:10]** where what's actually happening

**[01:11:12]** in science

**[01:11:14]** isn't really there,

**[01:11:16]** and you can listen to Dana Stach from Hyde Park of Civilization

**[01:11:18]** and there you see it,

**[01:11:20]** but if you watch the news on average TV,

**[01:11:22]** it's a completely different story.

**[01:11:24]** That's the good thing about that website,

**[01:11:26]** because it has those tabs.

**[01:11:28]** If you want to ruin your mood, click and it's doom.

**[01:11:30]** If you want to improve your mood, click and it's science.

**[01:11:32]** It's a choice everyone has in their own hands.

**[01:11:36]** There are as many good news

**[01:11:38]** as bad news,

**[01:11:40]** but we're mostly fed the bad news

**[01:11:42]** about Trump, Putin,

**[01:11:44]** and other criminals, often,

**[01:11:46]** and then,

**[01:11:48]** when a person lets themselves be overwhelmed by it,

**[01:11:50]** it then has

**[01:11:52]** a pretty bad effect on their psyche,

**[01:11:54]** and the person no longer cares

**[01:11:56]** that someone invented

**[01:11:58]** some new nanotechnology,

**[01:12:00]** because they feel like the world is ending.

**[01:12:04]** When a person says to themselves,

**[01:12:06]** it's good to say in the morning,

**[01:12:08]** what I want to do that day,

**[01:12:10]** I want to be in a good mood and act accordingly.

**[01:12:12]** For example, come to breakfast,

**[01:12:14]** take part in breakfast.

**[01:12:16]** There you meet cool people.

**[01:12:18]** I think the problem is,

**[01:12:20]** when a person turns on their phone,

**[01:12:22]** reaches for it in the morning,

**[01:12:24]** and suddenly they find the first notifications there,

**[01:12:26]** and someone wants something from you.

**[01:12:28]** Someone smart said,

**[01:12:30]** it's good to first say what you want to do,

**[01:12:32]** and only then let yourself

**[01:12:34]** be flooded with those notifications,

**[01:12:36]** because then someone else

**[01:12:38]** is managing your agenda for you.

**[01:12:40]** And the same goes for the news.

**[01:12:42]** Say, I want to improve

**[01:12:44]** my mood with some good news,

**[01:12:46]** so I go to some section,

**[01:12:48]** where the news is better.

**[01:12:50]** Like about

**[01:12:52]** someone inventing a new like for a conference

**[01:12:54]** or that there's a great new satellite here,

**[01:12:56]** which can solve

**[01:12:58]** these mysteries in peace

**[01:13:00]** or move us forward.

**[01:13:02]** Tomáš, let me ask,

**[01:13:04]** you combine many

**[01:13:06]** fields in science,

**[01:13:08]** like you showed 3D printing,

**[01:13:10]** then you talked about nanotechnologies,

**[01:13:12]** you also talked about some biotechnology.

**[01:13:14]** If you want to taste the vegetables,

**[01:13:16]** there's a whole complex

**[01:13:18]** prepared for you,

**[01:13:20]** which they printed here in green code,

**[01:13:22]** which is the technology of printing.

**[01:13:24]** So you can even taste the vegetables there.

**[01:13:26]** And you actually collaborate with those Czech companies,

**[01:13:28]** I know you work with Commomodular,

**[01:13:30]** I know you work with 3D printing,

**[01:13:32]** with Tomáš Rankens and ISU,

**[01:13:34]** I saw the prototype.

**[01:13:36]** As an architect

**[01:13:38]** or a person who

**[01:13:40]** puts solutions together, how deep do you have to go?

**[01:13:42]** Like really understand the technology?

**[01:13:44]** Well, selectively.

**[01:13:46]** It's good to understand everything generally

**[01:13:48]** and then focus on something

**[01:13:50]** that is currently

**[01:13:52]** specific and needs to be

**[01:13:54]** pushed further.

**[01:13:56]** Usually architects have the disadvantage

**[01:14:00]** of being generalists

**[01:14:02]** and that has its advantages.

**[01:14:06]** Here someone

**[01:14:08]** asked the question,

**[01:14:12]** What kind of timeframes

**[01:14:14]** are we probably dealing with?

**[01:14:16]** Isn't it a bit depressing to spend your whole life doing research

**[01:14:18]** and most likely never even visit Mars?

**[01:14:24]** Yeah, it's kind of like that, where a person

**[01:14:28]** there

**[01:14:30]** designs some things,

**[01:14:34]** sometimes for the present,

**[01:14:36]** and somehow balances it out.

**[01:14:38]** Then I enjoy working on something

**[01:14:42]** where you might not even see the result,

**[01:14:44]** but maybe it inspires someone later or

**[01:14:46]** it moves things forward.

**[01:14:48]** For example, if

**[01:14:50]** Prague was built on the moon, then maybe

**[01:14:52]** I thought it would be great if they named a street after me there.

**[01:14:54]** Given that

**[01:14:56]** the concept suggests there will be only

**[01:14:58]** streets,

**[01:15:00]** it's possible it would be

**[01:15:02]** a dead-end street.

**[01:15:04]** But

**[01:15:06]** when it comes to space stuff,

**[01:15:08]** what I enjoy more is the dimension

**[01:15:10]** of our evolution,

**[01:15:12]** and I'm not really a hero myself,

**[01:15:14]** I'm more of a scrapper

**[01:15:16]** and a computer rat,

**[01:15:18]** so I don't rush to become an astronaut,

**[01:15:20]** but

**[01:15:22]** I enjoy helping with it.

**[01:15:24]** Here at Astronaut,

**[01:15:26]** we talked a bit about Aleš Sobor.

**[01:15:28]** We also talked about that project, or you mentioned it,

**[01:15:30]** the Czech path to space.

**[01:15:32]** What fascinated me, by the way,

**[01:15:42]** if you haven't heard, definitely

**[01:15:44]** there are several episodes now in Hyde Park

**[01:15:46]** Dan Stach covered it.

**[01:15:48]** He was on the plane with him and with

**[01:15:50]** Kovi and Mikýš who did

**[01:15:52]** a double somersault and so on.

**[01:15:54]** But what fascinated me

**[01:15:56]** was the actual reason

**[01:15:58]** why the Czech side did it.

**[01:16:00]** And they did it precisely to

**[01:16:02]** promote space

**[01:16:04]** and these

**[01:16:06]** technologies.

**[01:16:08]** And I actually feel they succeeded a lot.

**[01:16:10]** I think it was a good job.

**[01:16:12]** They didn't just focus

**[01:16:14]** on the technologies, but really

**[01:16:16]** on education.

**[01:16:18]** They go hand in hand, because we won't be able to use

**[01:16:20]** the technologies

**[01:16:22]** without education.

**[01:16:24]** Especially when we have very good education,

**[01:16:26]** we can also create those technologies.

**[01:16:28]** I'm lucky

**[01:16:30]** to know one, and greetings to

**[01:16:32]** Adam Svoboda, a guy

**[01:16:34]** who made it into the top fifty.

**[01:16:36]** He wasn't there, but he made it into the top fifty,

**[01:16:38]** so I talked to him about what it...

**[01:16:40]** And there was another Svoboda.

**[01:16:42]** There was some other one, I thought,

**[01:16:44]** Svaněs is related to the one who flew,

**[01:16:46]** in the team.

**[01:16:48]** Did you have anything to do with it?

**[01:16:50]** No, I was

**[01:16:52]** just invited to the party afterwards,

**[01:16:54]** to the afterparty.

**[01:16:56]** There was just an incredible energy in the air,

**[01:16:58]** and it was worth it.

**[01:17:02]** And that struck me,

**[01:17:04]** like

**[01:17:06]** suddenly we have

**[01:17:08]** a generation of super talented,

**[01:17:10]** skilled people.

**[01:17:12]** But they were always here.

**[01:17:14]** And they have the opportunities.

**[01:17:16]** And the accessibility.

**[01:17:18]** Because if someone wanted to work in Space before,

**[01:17:20]** they needed a PhD,

**[01:17:22]** then to start working at the Academy of Sciences,

**[01:17:24]** and then build some antenna.

**[01:17:26]** Now it's like

**[01:17:28]** a 15-year-old boy says,

**[01:17:30]** hey, I'll just start

**[01:17:32]** programming right here,

**[01:17:34]** right away.

**[01:17:36]** And there was even a four-year-old girl,

**[01:17:38]** who already has

**[01:17:40]** code on the ISS,

**[01:17:42]** in some Astropaj

**[01:17:44]** project she's involved in.

**[01:17:46]** We have these kinds of

**[01:17:48]** amazing people here.

**[01:17:50]** Maybe I am...

**[01:17:52]** Let's move on.

**[01:17:54]** Do you focus

**[01:17:56]** any of your projects on waste management? I think your technology could

**[01:17:58]** eliminate hazardous waste

**[01:18:00]** by, for example, exporting it to space. And I

**[01:18:02]** will broaden the question a bit.

**[01:18:04]** Often people look at space and say,

**[01:18:06]** hey, what's the point? We're wasting

**[01:18:08]** money there instead of spending it here.

**[01:18:10]** And they don't understand the transfer

**[01:18:12]** we benefit from here.

**[01:18:14]** So try to say something.

**[01:18:16]** Why do you actually focus on that?

**[01:18:18]** Because you are a global citizen.

**[01:18:24]** I feel like you're doing it

**[01:18:26]** basically for that

**[01:18:28]** philanthropy, to make life better here for us.

**[01:18:30]** So waste and all that

**[01:18:32]** idea around it.

**[01:18:34]** When I see waste, I see raw material.

**[01:18:36]** I don't see it as waste.

**[01:18:38]** Waste is seen by someone without imagination.

**[01:18:40]** When someone gives me a little slip

**[01:18:42]** like a parking ticket or

**[01:18:44]** some nonsense, I think,

**[01:18:46]** before I throw it away,

**[01:18:48]** I'll at least write something on it, a note

**[01:18:50]** or sketch something on it, so it has

**[01:18:52]** a longer life than just two seconds

**[01:18:54]** before it becomes waste.

**[01:18:56]** Right now,

**[01:18:58]** for example, Czechs are

**[01:19:00]** also naturally

**[01:19:02]** thrifty and don't waste,

**[01:19:04]** so we have become leaders in waste management

**[01:19:06]** compared to other countries.

**[01:19:10]** We have skilled companies here

**[01:19:12]** for recycling, we have

**[01:19:14]** a new marketplace

**[01:19:16]** for recycling industrial waste,

**[01:19:18]** we have

**[01:19:20]** many people who

**[01:19:22]** are committed to it.

**[01:19:26]** For example, nuclear waste,

**[01:19:28]** there are

**[01:19:30]** types of nuclear power plants that can take that waste

**[01:19:32]** and even generate more electricity from it.

**[01:19:34]** Then simply,

**[01:19:36]** it can be buried

**[01:19:38]** underground and that's it, but

**[01:19:40]** it's not like it's a big problem

**[01:19:42]** for those nuclear power plants.

**[01:19:44]** It's nicely manageable.

**[01:19:46]** And then

**[01:19:48]** simply

**[01:19:50]** the problem is things like plastics,

**[01:19:52]** because all the plastic humanity

**[01:19:54]** has produced from that oil is still

**[01:19:56]** somewhere. It just breaks down

**[01:19:58]** into smaller and smaller pieces, but it remains

**[01:20:00]** basically young.

**[01:20:00]** and because of that plastic, we just don't see it anymore, but we have it all over our bodies and all around us.

**[01:20:06]** So something sensible needs to be done about plastic, but the universe teaches us to recycle things as much as possible

**[01:20:17]** and close the loop, so that's a good lesson for us to be creative with it and close the loop as much as possible.

**[01:20:26]** And what was the second half of the question?

**[01:20:28]** Well, the transfer of things, that it doesn't have to be just waste materials, but I feel there's not much talk about

**[01:20:36]** how our microwaves originated somewhere in space and such, that mostly it's the space industry,

**[01:20:45]** then the automotive industry, and then it goes further, where this transfer happens.

**[01:20:49]** For example, the chip in digital cameras is actually space technology.

**[01:20:59]** It was developed for satellites that had real problems working with analog signals.

**[01:21:04]** And that forced them to really make a digital chip, and now everyone has it in their pocket and takes it for granted.

**[01:21:12]** And on average, each of us uses space technologies about five times a day.

**[01:21:18]** That's navigation, things like weather, and it's said that 10% of Europe's production depends directly on space

**[01:21:31]** and 80% indirectly, so if we didn't have those technologies, we'd be decades behind.

**[01:21:42]** You don't even have to realize the exact connections, but it's very present here in how society becomes more efficient.

**[01:21:49]** Just the fact that a bread delivery comes to you, and I think that's a luxury, that you order food to your door

**[01:21:58]** and they come because everything is perfectly planned using satellite technologies and such.

**[01:22:04]** A few years ago, many of these things couldn't be operated so well.

**[01:22:10]** People say money is thrown into space, but that's nonsense, because space doesn't have anywhere to spend it.

**[01:22:20]** It just pays someone with a doctorate to work on the rocket or satellite or operate those things,

**[01:22:32]** and it always stays in the economy.

**[01:22:36]** When we look at the budget within ESA, the European Space Agency, it works like this,

**[01:22:43]** we take some money here in the Czech Republic, send it to ESA, and ESA orders parts from Czech companies

**[01:22:52]** for the same money that are used in the missions.

**[01:22:57]** So the money doesn't even go abroad.

**[01:23:00]** If we put another million into space here, it goes directly to some startup in Brno,

**[01:23:09]** to simply make batteries for satellites.

**[01:23:11]** And I think it's actually well set up, but many people don't know about it and feel

**[01:23:17]** that money is wasted somewhere, but I think it's more of an investment

**[01:23:21]** that has good long-term returns.

**[01:23:24]** When we talked here about important domains for the future,

**[01:23:28]** space and having satellites and being independent is, in my opinion, another interesting area for Europe.

**[01:23:36]** That's really a great potential for the future because I think those are the new Škodas.

**[01:23:43]** These are things that can sustain us here in the future.

**[01:23:49]** Top-notch technology with applications extending into many other areas, where the value is greater,

**[01:23:56]** than, as they say, just pure assembly without any innovations.

**[01:24:00]** Gáby asks where one can learn about projects for kids,

**[01:24:03]** like sending a LEGO figure into space?

**[01:24:10]** I think these things are all around us if you just look normally at...

**[01:24:18]** For example, the LEGO project was in stores, there were ads everywhere.

**[01:24:23]** I even took photos of it in about 20 places, like on escalators,

**[01:24:28]** and somewhere on some advertisements and so on.

**[01:24:33]** I saw it on a huge billboard next to...

**[01:24:36]** Like a double billboard next to some buildings.

**[01:24:39]** There was the LEGO astronaut figure.

**[01:24:44]** So it seemed to me that this winter it was maybe unforgettable for me,

**[01:24:47]** but maybe for someone else.

**[01:24:50]** Is it hard to find specialists, for example, in programming

**[01:24:53]** an autonomous welding robot?

**[01:24:56]** Look, I think a lot of people could learn that,

**[01:25:03]** but usually the people who offer that in the fingerbiddle,

**[01:25:06]** are often people who worked at SpaceX before.

**[01:25:09]** So a large part of those people worked at SpaceX,

**[01:25:12]** and there are their former colleagues or from NASA JPL,

**[01:25:17]** they actually just hired a guy into the team,

**[01:25:22]** who previously built those Mars robots.

**[01:25:26]** But I think even a high school student can learn it.

**[01:25:29]** They can learn some Python and tinker with it for a while,

**[01:25:33]** and with the help of something like chat GPT, they can learn it on their own.

**[01:25:41]** I also think the days when we needed to go to university

**[01:25:48]** to learn something and then live with it for life,

**[01:25:52]** are long, long gone.

**[01:25:54]** And if I decide now, I can become anything in a year.

**[01:26:00]** Maybe not a virtuoso, maybe on piano, but when it comes to programming,

**[01:26:04]** and new things, they are starting up.

**[01:26:08]** If we said here, we want to build a robot in a month,

**[01:26:12]** we could do it here with the people we have, with these hands and heads,

**[01:26:16]** we could put it together here.

**[01:26:18]** We just ordered parts, learned to program,

**[01:26:22]** then someone made a great PR campaign,

**[01:26:27]** another tried to screw it together.

**[01:26:30]** I think we have everything needed here

**[01:26:33]** to build a robot, for example.

**[01:26:36]** Or maybe some industrial thing, like an industrial robot.

**[01:26:40]** It's really interesting what you say about this growth mindset.

**[01:26:44]** It's something that I can already see someone might say,

**[01:26:48]** and that's nonsense, what are you even talking about... But it's actually true.

**[01:26:51]** This is some kind of block.

**[01:26:54]** It's a needless loss, because really...

**[01:26:58]** And for example, when we talk about programming,

**[01:27:02]** if I look at the amazing work DITAS is doing,

**[01:27:06]** Formanková with Čekítas, how they manage to get women

**[01:27:10]** to an incredible level in a short time.

**[01:27:14]** Mothers on maternity leave are working in tech companies,

**[01:27:18]** and in the future, they will be in the core of those companies because companies need people

**[01:27:22]** who understand technology. So it's great work.

**[01:27:26]** Now we can move on to Bridge Academy.

**[01:27:30]** I was at a Minecraft course by Bridge Academy on Sunday.

**[01:27:34]** It's led by my friend Aleš Smetana, who is also a tech visionary

**[01:27:38]** and is pushing education forward. He even founded a university and a high school focused on technology.

**[01:27:42]** He’s not afraid because thousands of kids have gone through his online courses and camps.

**[01:27:46]** He saw there was a real hunger for education,

**[01:27:50]** directly from the kids and so on.

**[01:27:54]** They want to do interesting things.

**[01:27:58]** And they are expanding to America as well.

**[01:28:02]** They are basically a project from Mustů.

**[01:28:06]** They operate all over the country and now also in Florida

**[01:28:10]** and other places like that.

**[01:28:14]** I think it's great that kids first learn

**[01:28:18]** Minecraft, then Roblox,

**[01:28:22]** then Python, then other things, and suddenly

**[01:28:26]** they are programming self-driving cars.

**[01:28:30]** Or they can start a business or anything else.

**[01:28:34]** And suddenly it’s a huge leap forward.

**[01:28:38]** The whole concept of school and education is kind of stuck,

**[01:28:42]** and yet we already have everything available, just like you said.

**[01:28:46]** I’ll end it here.

**[01:28:50]** Tom, thank you very much.

**[01:28:54]** It was great, thanks a lot.

**[01:28:58]** Thanks, thanks. Thanks for coming.

**[01:29:02]** Tomáš and I could probably talk for a few more hours.

**[01:29:04]** And here we can all keep chatting over coffee somewhere.

**[01:29:20]** So please give us feedback on how you liked the breakfast.

**[01:29:24]** You can definitely write a word on the slide,

**[01:29:28]** that came to mind related to what you heard.

**[01:29:32]** It's good not to keep it to yourself,

**[01:29:36]** but to discuss it with someone, whether at your company or school,

**[01:29:40]** try to find some aha moments, something that caught your attention,

**[01:29:44]** and share it further. That usually helps because

**[01:29:48]** you can then present it.

**[01:30:00]** And we'll try to talk about what we could do and maybe answer some questions,

**[01:30:05]** which I saw but we didn't get to, so we'll have lunch on April 23rd.

**[01:30:10]** The Brain&Breakfast Business breakfast continues, we have feedback

**[01:30:17]** and trends and future technologies with Michael Schreyer,

**[01:30:20]** which happens to be a topic that could connect very well,

**[01:30:24]** so definitely stay loyal to us.

**[01:30:27]** We have news, after three years in the Arby book,

**[01:30:32]** which is another project under Red Button, I want to thank Hans Jadavan,

**[01:30:35]** who drove the book forward, moving it a big step ahead,

**[01:30:40]** and now has passed the baton to a big reader,

**[01:30:47]** and that is Pavel Pumperle, so you already have his first tip on rbkniha.cz,

**[01:30:51]** it will be a bit different than before, try exploring it,

**[01:30:55]** I think you'll like it, so welcome to the book club here with us under Red Button.

**[01:31:02]** And as I said, there are a lot of projects,

**[01:31:06]** another innovator to the collection, Jáno Košturek, with whom we have the school of life,

**[01:31:10]** so if you'd like, again a topic about lean innovative business,

**[01:31:14]** on the 34th evening, so definitely this is something that can offer that.

**[01:31:21]** And otherwise, if you need anything, just press the red button,

**[01:31:25]** that's what we're here for at Red Button, redbutton.cz, the name is PUSH.

**[01:31:29]** Thank you very much for being with us, you can look forward to the next breakfast,

**[01:31:34]** on May 20th with Arabistka and Lenka Hrabalová, we'll explore a slightly different culture,

**[01:31:42]** touch on a somewhat sensitive topic, especially here with us,

**[01:31:47]** so I'm really looking forward to it and you can be there on May 22nd, the classic, that's our 30th.

**[01:31:53]** Thanks a lot, take care, bye and see you.

**[01:31:57]** Bye.

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