planet's dominant form of intelligence. The alien has a look, then chooses.
What do you think he picks? I probably shrugged. The zaibatsus, Fox said,
the multinationals. The blood of a zaibatsu is information, not people. The
structure is independent of the individual lives that comprise it.
Corporation as life form. Not the Edge lecture again, I said
- From William Gibson's "New Rose Hotel"
If we were to represent a Corporation, computer program, or network graphically, the most most common way is to depict its blood: the individual nodes that comprise it, the connections, and the information flowing through it. Like an x-ray or CAT scan of the organism, this method depicts the internal structures accurately. However, how do you depict the movement of this organism?
The first step would be to define the space it inhabits. We define our dimensions as degrees of movement, which also happens to be all that is needed to acurately describe our unique position. True, non-organic life exists in the same 4 (3 spacial, 1 temporal) dimensions as us, though these values have little meaning to it since its degree of movement are different. To show it moving would be to show the changes in each of its degrees of freedom: the number of nodes, the number of connection, information flow, influence, etc.
The video video above was created charting random data, but could be applied to any number of non-organic organisms.










In honor of this year's
Branching
Tessellation Automata
Packing
I recently read an article by Manuel DeLanda discussing Non-Organic Life and the Mechanical Phylum. Simply put, anything that crosses thresholds can be thought of as an organism. This includes waves moving through water, rocks forming stratas over millennium, yo-yos, simple circuits, and computers.
I find this concept most interesting as it applies to bots or web crawlers. When computer programs are competing to solve a problem their "movement" and the very space they inhabit it made at the discretion of the programmer. I've


Shuhei Endo has been doing some interesting work with geodesic dome structures. One of his larger projects is the ECO House, a huge bean shaped geodesic dome with grass growing around much of the outside. He said it keeps the inside 10 degrees cooler on the inside without air conditioning (I dont know if it's Celsius or Fahrenheit). The ECO House encloses 9 tennis courts in one snaking bean shape without any obstructing walls or columns. He did a kindergarten in a similar fashion though at a much smaller scale. I like how it makes children sized overhangs. 



