From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 11:07:35 MDT
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Anders Sandberg
> If cryonics ever takes off (and before we all turn into posthuman
> monoliths as per the Great Plan)
Well actually ... don't you think that in the future we would look a bit
more like trees? Or rather like tumbleweeds with leafs?
For collecting energy, or signals, or for a whole lot of other practical
reasons, the fractal tree-like shape would probably be the most efficient.
Naturally if we all turn into Jupiter brains it's different, but I could
easily imagine a planet, or a Dyson Sphere covered with an intelligent
tumbleweed network.
It's right on the tip of my tongue but I can't for the dead of me remember
in what book there was that view of a fractal life form. You all know it, it
is one of the classics.
Well I have allways thought that it needed leafs, for both practical and
estethic reasons. Like nano-tech nature has evolved a reasonable design
allready.
regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark
Max M. W. Rasmussen, Denmark. New Media Director
private: maxmcorp@worldonline.dk work: maxm@normik.dk
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