[p2p-research] Building Torrent Family Trees (Beta)

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi tomas, I'm putting you in touch with my briliant friend Remi, who has
studied, amongst other things, family trees of religion ... you never know
there's a potential linkage ...

Michel

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Tomas Rawlings <tom at fluffylogic.net> wrote:

> Does evolution apply to technology? A couple of people have suggested it
> does; most recently was W Brian Arthur writing in New Scientist. I also
> think it does and my PhD is trying to find the evidence for this idea. We
> are used to seeing family trees in biology. But how about for software? I
> think it is possible for us to look at family tree of forms of digital media
> too, so have been working on a method to build phylogenetic style family
> trees for BitTorrent software. The method is phylogenetic style rather than
> based abound the idea of torrents; The key reason that this is akin to the
> phylogenetic method is because the linkages are based on relationships of
> the source code (read: DNA) and not upon the meme-layer (read:idea). A
> similar exercise but around the meme-layer would produce very different
> results. Anyway this is the beta of my research and feedback and comments on
> this would be welcome!
>
> http://blog.catbot.org/content/building-torrent-family-trees-beta
>
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> Tomas
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