posted 10 years ago
http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=6483
10 Words Technology Borrowed from Nature (article in Orion magazine)
by Sue Thomas
the first one listed.....
1. Ecosystem. The internet is often described as an ecosystem (or a sky, or a park, or a jungle), and many of its parts are named after the natural world. “Cyberspace,” says the technology historian Fred Turner, “is a frantic mingling of biological, digital, and frontier metaphors.”
Art by Peter McFarlane
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
