cyberGaia( was: RE: Multiple Future Bens)

From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Dec 23 2002 - 14:20:04 MST


Jonathan Standley:

> these animals would communicate with other interfaced animals around them,
> through a variety of means. They would form a self-organizing network,
> eventually spanning all of the world's major ecosystems. At the
> top level of
> this network would be You. Your input and output structures would be
> integrated into the network, and You would become a sort of digital gaia.

That's pretty much the case in Poul Anderson's last important novel,
GENESIS.

Damien Broderick



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