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That's an interesting point of view. Maybe the Network is the computer after all. Sun had it right. Whatever the message being passed along, the network doesn'
by dragonbonheur 12y ago
That's an interesting point of view. Maybe the Network is the computer after all. Sun had it right.
Whatever the message being passed along, the network doesn't seem to be harmed at all. Maybe it is the prime beneficiary of this interconnection and passes chemicals around just to make sure it has the resources of the trees at its disposal in the future. And it manages those resources carefully to ensure they don't use up all the nutrients in the soil too fast.
Interesting point of view.
- jacobolus 12y agoMcLuhan: > Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and evolve ever new forms.
- A_COMPUTER 12y agoMichael Pollan in one of his speeches, called corn one of the most successful species on Earth via its utilization of humans to facilitate its propagation.