Brief story: This afternoon, I, Matthew Wade Davis, a living human creature of the date January 18, 2008 realized that a very dear friend of mine has a name that loosely translates in English to "Little Zero". Intrigued, I soon found myself drawn to a computer wherein I would seek out the information that led me down the following path...

Predictions of future events have been around for as long as history has cared to document, and probably a lot longer. Unsurprisingly, most predictions made in any detail concerning any significant amount of time turn out to be wrong. This is simply bound to be true by the nature of the universe as we perceive it, as out of all the uncountable...

(from which weirdly enough got me thinking to the point of writing the following) Think back...

that is of course just the beginning, man machine interface is coming our way, are we...

Bipedalism, loss of body hair, subcutaneous fat, speech. Aquatic ape theory.

Immortality. Life Extension. The Fountain of Youth. Real science or simply wishful thinking?...

Perspective makes the single eye the center of the visible world. Everything converges on to the...

"The brain acknowledges and remembers shapes first. [...] Color is the second in the...

Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off...

David Lane's interpretation of Patricia Churchland's neurophilosophy and how the brain is...

After a 22-hour ride through the 3.7-billion-year-old, lava-gorged Taurus-Littrow Valley,...

The evolutionary prospect of an ethical criterion Evolution is blind. No scientific theory...

So I've been reading this amazing book titled "The Tao of Pooh", written by Benjamin Hoff. Basically, it's a systematic process of explaining how Winnie the Pooh is indeed one of the great Taoist philosophers, because of his ability to live in the Now, let life take its course and go along for the ride, free of frets and...

Zylon, poly(p-phenylene-2,6-benzobisoxazole), is a thermoset polyurethane synthetic polymer...

ColleX (The, A): {Noun, Plural: ColleXes} A descriptive term constructed of the terms...

this new drug sounds amazing, but i hope that it will always be properly regulated. or else, things can get out of hand.

Over the past few days I've been thinking about religion/spirituality/mysticism and the mediums by which they will be exercised and expressed eventually. It seems like just about any form of entertainment (religion included) has gone through an evolution in media. With music for example the performance was only live, then came sheet music, the...

megan and I went into a social psychology class yesterday where there was a recording speaking to the room over a boombox, with the human professor standing aside as if she was merely the operator or caretaker of the machine. i imagined that the boombox could be merely the bug-faced head of a robot professor, where instead of the eyes taking up...

Below is Sir Edmund Hillary's obituary from the New York Times. Hillary was the first person...

Just some tracks I feel exemplify this idea. Keep in mind I may add to this. Patrice Scott - Raw Fusion Kelley Polar - Sea of Sine Waves Spargo - A Go Go (Lovely Edit)

REWORKED CONCEPT: visually construct something that is in conversation with the concept of...

I have looked through so many images, websites, applets, etc, that I feel quite overwhelmed. I am...

Cellular Automata (CA) have a couple of distinct purposes to serve: The furthering of scientific...

lia vehicles as they have the ability to carry and project things to trace the trajectory...

Andreas Gursky A Frenchmen (unless he is abroad) cannot classify French faces; doubtless he...

There’s a new fluidity in design. For Project 1, I’m building an emergent process using...

A few years ago, I watched a movie called "I Heart Huckabees." I immediately fell in love...

What about Human beings in 40 million years? Could some post humans see in live this...

Project 1: Concept My concept is to visually illustrate facts and figures in an interesting...

After looking at some of Karl Sim’s work I was very interested in the way he produces virtual...

[This is more than one idea, because I don't know what will work.] This idea was inspired by Jared...

brainstorming// [ blue brain ] This representation shows the connectivity of the 10,000...

Peter Eisenman's work has been described as a critique of and by calculations. Many of his forms...

Emerging Something From Nothing After seeing the presentations on different emergent topics,...

For this project, I want to make a visual software that analyzes the topics of autonomous agents + swarm intelligence. I did some poking around online for good algorithms and examples for both Processing and Flash (Actionscript is a bit more mushy compared to Processing ). Meiotic Clusters I particularly like the Meiotic Cluster project...

Our concept begins with an even number of black and white vehicles moving about randomly within...

The concept utilizes the boids flocking system, and explores the relationship between each of...

Our concept begins with an even number of black and white vehicles moving about randomly within...