Chapter 1. Fitscapes and Fallacies
The vast majority of all computing today is distributed. Local computing, which forms the roots of computer science and is itself still evolving, has become the exception rather than the rule.
In the summer of 1969, the first manned moon landing connected all humanity through televised images from our nearest celestial neighbor. That spring, James Lovelock had first presented his “Gaia hypothesis,” which placed humanity (along with all terrestrial life) within a self-regulating, adaptive, interdependent biosphere we now call home. Autumn was witness to the beginning of the Internet, which now connects us ever more closely by computer surrogates. 1969 was a seminal year.
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