Currently, Davis is collecting magnetic bacteria in local ponds in hopes of using the organisms to build radios that can pick up his favorite Boston stations—and batteries that he jokes may help to solve the world's energy problems. He's also refining ways to slip extra information into organisms' genomes without affecting their well-being. Drawing on Davis' work, two other artists have offered to memorialize people's deceased relatives by inserting their DNA into apple-tree genomes, though so far no trees have been grown.

In the end, it almost doesn't matter whether Davis' ideas pan out. It's the concepts that provoke, by flickering on the outskirts of human imagination. Though to be fair, that's not exactly how Davis sees it. He believes that "all our dreams are going to come true, so we better have some good dreams."