Read "The Invincible"[1] from Stanisław Lem. Particularly the chapter called "Lauda's hypothesis" about the evolution of the planet's 'necrosphere' of self-org

Read "The Invincible"[1] from Stanisław Lem. Particularly the chapter called "Lauda's hypothesis" about the evolution of the planet's 'necrosphere' of self-organizing insect-like machines. Curiously magnetism also plays a role in the book. It's from 1963. Lem was always eerily accurate with many of his futurist ideas. Even though he didn't want to be seen as a futurist but just as a sci-fi author. "Weapon systems of the 21st century"[2] is another one of those of his works. Written in 1986 it predicts satellite-mounted use of lasers and 'synsects' (synthetic insects) with swarm intelligence. It also predicts that powerful AI is not needed but (superior) swarm intelligence is enough for battlefield superiority. I dunno if the latter is even available in English but I guess nowadays you can just ask an LLM to translate the Polish original or the very good German translation to English, if you want to read it. :) [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invincible https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invincible [2] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffensysteme_des_21._Jahrhunderts https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffensysteme_des_21._Jahrhu...