About this site

At the interface between the physical and informational worlds, this site explores an abstract vision of interactive information technologies. Through elaborated or brief opinions, essays, and as much interactive material as possible, it intends to let the message of this site reify itself. As for the state of this site, it is at the image of this article: incomplete, bound to evolve over the months to come with help from your feedback and timetable gaps...

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From atoms to bits and back

At the interface between the physical and informational worlds, this site explores an abstract vision of interactive information technologies. Through elaborated or brief opinions, essays, and as much interactive material as possible, it intends to let the message of this site reify itself. As for the state of this site, it is at the image of this article: incomplete, bound to evolve over the months to come with help from your feedback and timetable gaps...

Doing this experience with an interactive media is quite an experience in reification.

Convinced that the written word is far insufficient a media to convey multiple layers of interpretations, denotation and connotations that together create a meaning, hypetext can help. Interactive programs and dynamic graphics do much more.

This site explores the process by which physical actions, energy level changes in atoms get turned into bits and bytes of information, purely immaterial yet all too real objects. For even though they are entirely different, information objects are the closest thing we know to describe which share those properties with human thoughts.

Since I was a kid, my fascination with the question "what do I think with?" has prevailed in my studies and a good bit of my daily life.

On the site construction process

Despite its evolving nature, this site is not a weblog: its content is not the result of day to day experiences, but rather is the slow process of transcribing a wealth of written, oral and multimedia material for a nice web experience. The project could have stood a long way in the dark before popping out all nice and ready like Athena out of Zeus' mind. Yet this would have precluded the sharing experience and benefiting from reader's feedback all along. This is why I felt preferable to create this permatnently "in construction" site and design it with evolutivity in mind. Its look is far from polished yet, but my hope is that over the months to come, more content, but also more interactive features and better page layout should enable the current one hundred or so daily visitors to enjoy strong and opiniated content on the wonders of the interface between the physical and informational worlds.
page created 01/2005. last updated 01/2005. Copyright Thomas Baudel.