
Kevin Kelly: Technium Unbound
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The Degree Confluence
This is what the technically looks like on the planet. It's not an even engineered coat around the planet. Human density, again, is uneven. This is mobile coverage, uneven, 3G, uneven. Here's the oceanic cables. These are the neurons connecting between the continents. There's a million eyes that we've added to that nervous system. A billion eyes, actually. Trillion eyes. They're coming. We have this super machine. Right now, it consumes three quarters of the energy that we use. But another definition of super organisms is that they die when the whole part dies. And then you get something much more complex and life-like. Most machines can run
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