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FREUD LIVES. "And if all goes according to plan, he will keep on breeding them until he has achieved a goal far more adventurous than anything yet attempted by other virus programmers – infusing the vast unused spaces of the global computer networks with a roiling digital ecology as complex, as fascinating, and ultimately as beneficial to humankind as the rain forests that he has long sought to protect and understand." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

DIGECOLOGY. "Ray foresees digital naturalists like "modern day tropical biologists exploring our organic jungles." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

DIGI-BIOTIC ECOLOGY. "He is confident that once his "one-celled" simple self-replicating organisms encounter the immensity, the topological intricacy, and the fluid instability of the Net, they will quickly rise to the occasion and evolve into tightly coordinated multicellular conglomerates, thus setting off the dreamed-of Big Bang of complex digi-biotic diversity. https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

JURASSIC PARK. "A Proposal To Create a Network-Wide Biodiversity Reserve for Digital Organisms" (Tom Ray). https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

STREAMLINING AND OUTSOURCING. Extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria. https://lnkd.in/dx2k-vt View in LinkedIn

AMPLIFIED. "I realized that the global network is just a loosely connected parallel computer, and much larger and more powerful than anything that will ever exist as a single machine." And thus was born Ray's plan to colonize the Net." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

BEYOND THE ONION. "Importantly, the comparison is not restricted to onions versus humans. It could as easily be between pufferfish and lungfish, which differ by ∼350-fold, or members of the genus Allium, which have more than a 4-fold range in genome size that is not the result of polyploidy." https://lnkd.in/eT5V5Xc View in LinkedIn

INNOVATIVE SURVIVAL. "The swift and drastic size reductions of those first runs startled Ray, but even more remarkable were the survival strategies these variants encoded. The 45- and 51-byte creatures, it turned out, were not worms but bona fide parasitic viruses, achieving their leanness by borrowing reproductive code from larger programs when they needed to copy themselves." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

THE ONION QUESTION. "Why does an onion require five times more of it (the genome) than a human?” https://lnkd.in/eT5V5Xc View in LinkedIn

LET FREE. "Once loosed into the Tierra environment installed on Ray's laptop, the creature's offspring quickly spread to the new world's every corner, within minutes displaying the evolutionary transformations that would "write" Ray's organisms from then on." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn