Evolutionary Design

Could the age-old principles of breeding plants and livestock help us invent new technologies? This short documentary examines how a scientist and his company are using software to do just that in fields ranging from medicine navy warship testing.

Interviewee: Eric Bonabeau, CEO and CSO, Icosystem Corp.

2006

About These Documentaries

Upland created 20 short documentaries about topics in science, design, technology, and their intersections.

For each, we started by doing careful research and planning so that we could in most cases do all the interviewing and filming in a single day and edit to final cut within a week.

Most were funded in part by Technology Review and shown on the magazine's website alongside articles on the same topic. We selected topics with its editor-in-chief, but then did the rest of the work completely independently.

A few were funded in part by Children's Hospital Boston and used to raise funds for the hospital's medical research.