Ulrich W. Suter: A world of plastics – whence and whereto?

Plastics are older than humanity. Still, most plastics inventions
were made only in the past 200 years, scientific success happened
less than 100 years ago, and it is only 60 years ago that the
conversion of our world into a plastics universe has assumed
dramatic speed. In his talk Ulrich W. Suter from ETH Zurich
explains, how and why plastics have penetrated our daily life, what
it means and what we can expect for the immediate future.