My proposed project for project 3 is a generative history of time. My software will generated a series of sentences proceeding from a certain origin, using a crawler that drifts between topics until it hits a dead end. This software will begin with the phrase “In the beginning there was” to initiate an internet search. A returned search term will determine the subject of this first sentence, and furthermore, be used to initiate another internet search that will determine another sentence, denoting the next step in history. Illuminating the free-associative nature of information on the web, this text will generate histories that proceed unbound by a linear progression of time and space.

I will be using python to generate this text. Currently I am working with Wikipedia to provide the source material for the text. My goal is to produce a printed book, where each page is a completely different history of the world.