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Biological software 09/20/24(Fri)16:16:19 No.102475947

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Biological software Anonymous 09/20/24(Fri)16:16:19 No.102475947 Archived

Is the internet an example of a biological software system? Alan Kay seems to strongly imply it in the talk "The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet": https://youtu.be/oKg1hTOQXoY?t=2749
Why is there not more software that is designed in such a way? By that I mean as a system made up of smaller components connected to each other that is alive in the sense that the components can be added, modified, removed without the system ever going down similar to how a biological organism works.
Is it really because instead of objects the world decided to mainly use data to represent reality?

Anonymous
09/20/24(Fri)16:19:36 No.102476006

Anonymous 09/20/24(Fri)16:19:36 No.102476006

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>Is the internet an example of a biological software system?

Anonymous
09/20/24(Fri)16:35:19 No.102476230

Anonymous 09/20/24(Fri)16:35:19 No.102476230

>>102475947
>why is there not more software that is designed in such a way?
Google "distributed systems"

Tor network, torrents, container orchestration, distributed dbs, email, WWW, etc., there is a shit ton of such software