It's as if materials are becoming not just smart, but "alive" — and it will change the way things are designed and used in startling ways.
These included statements such as "if subjects' identifying materials are to be used, either they should be made non-identifying or the author should submit consent to use them" and "identifying information should not be published in a manuscript unless the subject gives consent for publication".
— has been directed as if the material to some degree were "Our Town".
It is as if the material could speak – which of course it does, in the hands of Genzken.
Yet the surface looks like weathered stucco, as if the material were displayed for all to see on an outdoor wall.
It is as if the material world had been left behind for a realm of eerie golden textures, delicately shaded rings and suspended threads of light.
Thus in physics, man must proceed "as if " a material world exists independently of perceiving subjects; in behaviour, he must act "as if " ethical certainty were possible; in religion, he must believe "as if " there were a God.
Alone, his act feels somehow unmoored, as if his material lacks direction – more than one set piece tails off with the confession: "I don't really have an ending for this".
By combining two materials, one with a positive refractive index, and one with a negative, they've produced something with an interesting effect: light passes through it as if that material wasn't even there.
This means that Google could have provided the useable ad text and spreadsheets in a standard machine- readable file format, such as CSV or JSON, that would be useful to data scientists but chose to turn them into images and PDFs as if the material would all be printed out on paper.
Over and over Trump recycles the same punchlines and catchphrases, performing his greatest hits before each new audience as if the material had freshly popped into his head.
