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“Life did not take over the world by combat,
but by networking.”
― Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
but by networking.”
― Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
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“Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.”
― What Is Life?
― What Is Life?
“Life is a planetary level phenomonon and the Earth has been alive for at least 3000 million years. To me the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhethoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth or heal a sick planet is evidence of our immense capacity for self-delusion. Rather, we need to protect us from ourselves.”
― Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution
― Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
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