When Humans Forgot How to Think

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When Humans Forgot How to Think

• Chapter 7 The Global Machine
• Presented by
• Nada Vydelingum
• BCIG 10/12/06

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Section-The Global Machine

• The Technosphere a. Production industries, b.
  Consumption of machines, c. Service industries,
  and d. Technology
• The Biosphere-Technoshpere-Network a. Individual
  and b. Global
• The Biosphere-Technosphere-Hypercycle
• The Global Machine

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Section-The Global Machine

• The Technosphere
• An antgtpart of a colony.dependency-control
• Technical devices/machines do not exist in
  isolation biosphereconnected /growing technical
  universe is the technosphere system-as-a-whole
  technologyexpressed as nodes/graphs networks,
  exchange relationships among machines and devices
• 4 sectors may distinguished within the
  technoshpere
• a. Production industries-species odf
  machines/devices of same type cars, airplanes,
  refrigerators, phone..etc.

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Section-The Global Machine

• The Technosphere
• b. Consumption of machines both private and
  economic in which machines are installed
  private cars, fridge gtgtgtgtgtinternational railroad
  systems, centers of communications, energy
  production facilities, computer center, space
  stations/satellitesetc
• Building of higher more complex interactions

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Section-The Global Machine

• The Technosphere
• c. Service Industries With help of
  machines/devicesoccupation with maintenance,
  upkeep, and repair of machines and devices.
• d. Technology Research, planning, and
  adminstrative science, economics and
  politicsgtgtgtmedicineALL connected through
  technology

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Section-The Global Machine

• The Biosphere-Technosphere-Network
• As technosphere has grown the more dependent and
  less autonomous the biosphere has become
• Animals and plants caught up in this human-Mach.
  Symbiosis (symbion? Dreams by AK)
• Development of tight networking of the biosphere
  with the technosphere .bio-techno-network
• Several planes plane of individuals, of
  intermediate planes individuals-global and global
  plane

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Section-The Global Machine

• The Biosphere-Technoshpere-Network
• a. Individual-lowest plane, cover earth w. a
  finely-woven network.processes..small,
  local-here now
• E.g. human works w. welding-torch in a car
  factorycar production
• b. Global intermediate planes defined between
  I and G in hierarchical levels leading to
  increase in-diversity of machines, absolute
  number, mutual dependency upon one another and
  their applications
• Nature and artefact are indistinguishable from
  one another

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The Biosphere-Technosphere-Network (cont)

• Result now Frequency, density and duration of
  the contacts both among individual life-forms and
  mcahinces and among machines themselves
  gtgtgtgtgtINCREASED
• E.g. PersoncarpersonPC at work
• Highest level in the global plane 100M cars,
  by 50M humans, in 100 factories on earth
• It is possible to create cluster maps to
  illustrate these different models in several
  dimensions thereby explaining relationships such
  as Linear Casual Network

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Section-The Global Machine

• The Global Machine
• Is technospheric biotechno-hypercycle.combined
  species human w. global machinegtgtgthuman-global-mac
  hine-complex.
• 1. Is the bio-techno-hypercycle a
  Darwinian-coevolution-system?
• 2. Is it therefore also a Darwinian-machine?
• 3. Is the global-machine a Darwinian
  co-evolution system?
• 4. Is it a Darwinian machine?
• Purpose? Does a master-slave relationship in the
  human-global-machine-complex exist? Has this
  global-machine become too large to be controlled?