I decided to look up textile to make sure that our project is fitting in with the brief "Future Textiles"

tex·tile  

/ˈtekstīl/

Noun A type of cloth or woven fabric.

Adjective Of or relating to fabric or weaving: "the textile industry".

Synonyms fabric - cloth - material - web - tissue

I like the noun, a type of cloth, yes our ideas are a type of cloth. Life is a woven fabric, a type of cloth, paths cross, ideas matt together, parts of us are worn away, or open to let in light or to reveal hidden layers. The adjective; of or relating to fabric or weaving: "the textile industry".

This is where the politics of our project come in. Perhaps within the goggles there is a dial, a kind of moral compass. It is set to link to our thought patterns. This is the point where our vision of ourselves may wander away from that which is seen by the outside world.

In our present day, children, most often in third world countries, die for lack of water. People work in unsanitary, unsafe conditions in order to provide their richer neighbours with a constant supply of cheap goods to satisfy our weary appetites. Do we within our chip have a code of conduct ? Do we continue to buy into the textiles industry or does the textiles industry have to adapt to changing attitudes ? It is a question that we are asking ourselves now. I wonder if the great desire in mankind to be the most, the best, supreme will remain in our alternative, "Black and White World", in which the only currency is the thoughts that we ourselves generate or allow to become a part of us.

The synonyms are all lovely. I particularly like tissue. I am thinking of human tissue, are our chips are related to our own genetic code ? If so then we, as chips, are imprinted with all the memories and experience that our parents and grandparents, and so on, held. We have a bank of recall, hence our ability to know things that belong in the past but which may no longer exist. The architecture, landscape, textures, sounds, smells, are embedded in our psyche. It is the psyche that generates our thought patterns. Our thought patterns in a digital age are like our ancestors hand prints on cave walls. 

Team M+N Future Textiles retrieve sensory experiences. Within our virtual future these experiences may amalgamate or distort to create "An Other World".