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[email protected] (Zeitgeyser) wrote:
>Read a book (can't remember title or author - sorry omar) whose main
>premis was that the human race was in the process of becoming a
>"superorganism" that was driven in large part by the spread of
>electronic communications. This is *not* the Gaia hypothesis. The guy
>made some interesting and reasonable points.
Heh? Sounds like the 'sprawl' trilogy by gibson. Yeah, I know.
Typical. But true.
Lessee, if my tired wine sodden memory works right, these
superorganism were the corporations... and AIs, and at the end, the
'Neuromancer', the one who composes the net... he 'is' the sum of
human information, and well, the 'superorganism' , more than the sum
of the whole.
Hmm.. Ack! Damned live action games....
W.E.
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