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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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