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Clive Thompson on How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth's Ecology

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- Plate tectonics is the thing that provides many of the building blocks for life in the form of energy
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But these days the environmental consequences and unfriendly economics of energy appear unsustainable. As a result, power providers and technology companies are making the electric grid smarter.

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- But these days the environmental consequences and unfriendly economics of energy appear unsustainable. As a result, power providers and technology companies are making the electric grid smarter.
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Webopedia: Brief Timeline of the Internet

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Gaia hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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- Lovelock suggested that life on Earth provides a cybernetic, homeostatic feedback system operated automatically and unconsciously by the biota, leading to broad stabilization of global temperature and chemical composition.
- In 1979 she wrote, in particular, that only homeorhetic and not homeostatic balances are involved: that is, the composition of Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere are regulated around "set points" as in homeostasis, but those set points change with time. Also she wrote that there is no special tendency of biospheres to preserve their current inhabitants, and certainly not to make them comfortable. Accordingly, the Earth is a kind of community of trust which can exist at many discrete levels of integration. This is true for all multicellular organisms which do not live or die all at once: not all cells in the body die instantaneously, nor are homeostatic "set points" constant through the life of an organism.
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- - Lovelock was careful to present a version of the Gaia Hypothesis which had no claim that Gaia intentionally or consciously maintained the complex balance in her environment that life needed to survive. It would appear that the claim that Gaia acts "intentionally" was a metaphoric statement in his popular initial book and was not meant to be taken literally. This new statement of the Gaia hypothesis was more acceptable to the scientific community.
  - Lovelock (1995) gave evidence of this in his second book, showing the evolution from the world of the early thermo-acido-phyllic and methanogenic bacteria towards the oxygen enriched atmosphere today that supports more complex life.
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Gaia: Community that Changes the World

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ORNL gains $1 million biofuels grant : Local News : Knoxville News Sentinel

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- The Oak Ridge research will look at ways to genetically alter poplar
  trees to maximize their ability to capture carbon and increase the
  production of biomass.
Wired 10.03: It's Alive!

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- "Intelligence," we
  discovered
  belatedly, leaned heavily on the shared experience of being alive and sentient
  in a physical world.
- In truth, we may never chat up a computer at a cocktail party. But in smaller
  yet significant ways, artificial intelligence is already here: in the cruise
  control of cars, the servers that route our email, and the personalized
  ads clogging our browser windows. The future is all around us.
Wired 3.10: Fear No AI

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- Computers are stuck in an intimate symbiosis with human beings because we're the dominant factor in their reproduction. Computers may evolve, but their evolution isn't shaped by natural selection; it's shaped by the human computer market.
- The emergence of expert systems, which spurred people to envision great electronic brains running international corporations, instead produced pattern-recognition software that enables people in large companies to make better decisions.
Wired 3.10: Superhumanism

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- Eventually, these
  machines will begin their own process of evolution and render us extinct in our
  present form. Yet, according to Moravec, this is not something we should fear:
  it's the best thing we could hope for, the ultimate form of human
  transcendence.
'Regional' Nuclear War Would Cause Worldwide Destruction | Wired Science from Wired.com

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- Beyond the local human tragedy of such a situation, a new study looking at the atmospheric chemistry of regional nuclear war finds that the hot smoke from burning cities would tear holes in the ozone layer of the Earth. The increased UV radiation resulting from the ozone loss could more than double DNA damage, and increase cancer rates across North America and Eurasia.
AI Reaches the Golden Years

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- "Artificial intelligence has accomplished more than people realize," said futurist Ray Kurzweil. "It permeates our economic infrastructure. Every time you place a cell phone call, send an e-mail, AI programs are directing information."
- Most science fields today depend on some form of AI. Take biology, which uses programs to make sense of the large sets of data reaped from mapping the human genome.
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- - "It's not a human civilization and a machine civilization competing with each other," Kurzweil said. "It's a human-machine civilization that's already merged, and that merger is going to get more intimate."

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Gaia is currently undergoing evolution, and we are both witnesses and participants. It's not just an abstract or spiritual concept anymore. It now has a basis in science and reality, and this collection of quotes and links are one attempt to prove it. This list is is not complete. In fact, it m...

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