Wednesday, May 14, 2014

"Cybernetic Civilization"

I saw this article a while back ago and thought the concept was really intriguing.

Here's a sample bit, but please follow the link to read the whole thing. It's not very long but it will likely change the way you look at the world and the system(s) we have developed around us.

" Humanity appears to be in the grip of a global system – one that we originally created, but which is now shaping our lives independently of our wishes.
I’ve recently begun to suspect that humanity is at a point of endosymbiosis with our electronic communications and control technology, especially through the Internet. In a sense, we humans have incorporated ourselves as essential control elements of a planet-wide cybernetic super-organism. The precedent for something like this is the way that mitochondria migrated as bacteria into ancient prokaryotic cells to become essential components of the new eukaryotic cells that make up all modern organisms, including us."

Read the rest here.


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