{"id":2235,"date":"2010-03-29T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2010-03-29T11:31:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T16:31:56","slug":"a-cyborg-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/03\/a-cyborg-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"a &#8220;cyborg planet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the excellent <em>Human Landscape<\/em>s, Erle Ellis (you may know him from his <em>Wired Science<\/em> article from last May, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/05\/ftf-ellis-1\/\">&#8220;Stop Trying to Save the Planet&#8221;<\/a>, which you should stop and read right now if you have not) <a href=\"http:\/\/ecotope.org\/blogs\/post\/2010\/03\/26\/Cyborg-Planet-where-the-clouds-twitter-and-the-forests-all-have-facebook.aspx\">suggests<\/a> that we need to start thinking about (and, presumably, constructing) a &#8220;cyborg planet&#8221;, where machines can feed us data directly from nature (&#8220;clouds twitter and the forests all have facebook&#8221;), allowing us to understand ourselves and natural processes as part of a singular, networked planetary ecology &#8212; which already exists and which we are already conducting mass experiments on, whether we understand the web of connections or not.\u00a0 It&#8217;d be sort of like following <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/pothos\">@pothos<\/a> (see <em>Pruned<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pruned.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/this-is-botanydome-death-is-listening.html\">write-up<\/a> of that experiment) or texting the fish in the Living Architecture Lab&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientcity.net\/exhibit\/?p=5\">&#8220;Amphibious Architecture&#8221;<\/a>, but at a mass scale, with, as Ellis suggests, satellites and social networks and smart grids and climate models integrated and then exploded back outward as a panopticon of data streams and feedback mechanisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the excellent Human Landscapes, Erle Ellis (you may know him from his Wired Science article from last May, &#8220;Stop Trying to Save the Planet&#8221;, which you should stop and read right now if you have not) suggests that we need to start thinking about (and, presumably, constructing) a &#8220;cyborg planet&#8221;, where machines can feed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[355,369],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-landscape","tag-landscape-futures","tag-post-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/2236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}