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« You and the tree in your garden come from a common ancestor. A billion and a half years ago, your paths diverged. But even today, after a huge journey in separate directions, you share with this tree a quarter of your genes... »
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Richard POWERS
The World Tree |
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Richard POWERS
The World Tree
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« They branch and duplicate, these algorithms that Neelay makes fly through the air. They are only at the beginning, like the simple cells in the morning of the Earth. But already they have learned to do, in a few short decades, what took a billion years to the molecules. Now all they have to do is learn what life wants from humans. Vast question, for sure. Too vast for humans alone. But humans are not alone, they never have been. »
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Richard POWERS
The World Tree |
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Richard POWERS
The World Tree
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« This world is not our world with trees in it. It is a world of trees, where humans have just arrived. »
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Richard POWERS
The World Tree |
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Richard POWERS
The World Tree
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