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I always find myself thinking back to the Foundation series. In one of the novels he envisions a world where the populous can all instantly communicate by thin

I always find myself thinking back to the Foundation series. In one of the novels he envisions a world where the populous can all instantly communicate by thinking, including with rocks and trees. He describes how the civilizations memories are stored in the rocks themselves. I'm always struck by how that doesn't actually sound far fetched to me, but how crazy it must have sounded then.

fractallyte 15y ago
Foundation's Edge - 1984. James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis was the basis for this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis), and at that time, such discussion was en vogue.