MX3D has been working with Joris Laarman Lab on a public project. The concept is to make a steel bridge using a 3D printer, then actually erect it in the city of Amsterdam. "MX3D Bridge" is truly a practical experiment through which we can think about future factories, future manufacturing, and future urban design. What is important here is that just because automated robots will play active roles, that will not simply mean that humans will be eliminated from future work entirely. The important thing about the "MX3D Bridge" project is "collaboration by people and robots." A 3D printer cannot make a bridge on its own, and the project has not progressed solely through the MX3D team's efforts, either. Fillipo from MX3D emphasizes that it involves lots of collaboration by many people. There is a platform to enable multiple teams with different areas of expertise to discuss things and support each other, and through that, people and robots will design the social landscape while making good use of each other's strengths. This is precisely the kind of "future working" that "MX3D Bridge" presents.

A talk event was held with Hideaki Ogawa and Kyoko Kunoh of ARS ELECTRONICA Futurelab, Editor-in-Chief of WIRED Japan, Michiaki Matsushima, and the two artists, Pinar and Fillipo. While explaining individual practical activities in specific detail, the discussion expanded to encompass what life will be like in a future where AI is a normal part of society. Just as Fillipo says, work for us humans will not actually drop to zero. The key point is that there will undoubtedly be major changes in our work styles. In a future where AI takes most simple tasks off our hands, it is going to be important to choose the "work styles we want," and think about what "time that is really necessary for ourselves." In a future like that, more attention will be given to altruistic work that will benefit other people, rather than work that serves egocentric purposes. As Pinar emphasizes, we can be certain that "it will not just be exciting talk about not having to work anymore, but will also require us to think seriously about how the systems that make up our society will change, who will be affected, and how." Technology itself is neutral. How it is used is entirely up to us. Besides, technology will not solve all our problems. Art has the power to generate "questions" that should give us many valuable insights for thinking about "Future Working," and about "Future Society." With humans and robots working hand-in-hand, perhaps we can create a rich, bright future—in "an age when people live for a 100 years."