Zitat des Tages von George Dyson:
I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.
If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.
Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time. Digital codes are strings of binary digits - bits.
Last time I checked, the digital universe was expanding at the rate of five trillion bits per second in storage and two trillion transistors per second on the processing side.
The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good.
I read the Drudge Report! And wander around Facebook sometimes!
When you click on a link, you are replicating the string of code that it links to. Replication of code sequences isn't life, any more than replication of nucleotide sequences is, but we know that it sometimes leads to life.
Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a very, very clear description that was truly prophetic.
