Alex Wright, The Deep History of the Information Age
August 19th, 02007 by Stewart Brand
A Series of Information Explosions
As usual, microbes led the way. Bacteria have swarmed in intense networks for 3.5 billion years. Then a hierarchical form emerged with the first nucleated cells which were made up of an enclosed society of formerly independent organisms.
That’s the pattern for the evolution of information, Alex Wright said. Networks coalesce into heirarchies, which then form a new level of networks, which coalesce again, and so on…
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Posted on August 19th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
And networks seem to be an emerging next step in information visualization, processing and hierarchy. See anything by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi. (Better yet, why not invite him to speak at Long Now sometime.)
Posted on August 23rd, 2007 at 3:31 am
This perspective is funny. Funny when you don’t know the history well. Funny when you think that Engelbart’s work is the begining :) . Thank you.
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Posted on April 21st, 2009 at 2:49 pm
can’t seem to navigate to the audio for this … the Seminars page only maps back to Peter Diamand