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"When computer scientists dissect the massive rivers of traffic flowing through it, they cannot account
for the source of all the bits. Every now and then a bit is transmitted incorrectly, and while most
of those mutations can be attributed to identifiable causes such as hacking, machine error, or line damage,
the researchers are left with a few percent that somehow changed themselves. In other words, a small
fraction of what the technium communicates originates not from any of its known human-made nodes but from
the system at large. The technium is whispering to itself."
From What Technology Wants
by Kevin Kelly
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