Sunday, February 25, 2007

This quick video reminds me of Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker's masterful short-story "Big Jelly," which appears in the former's "A Good Old-Fashioned Future" and the latter's sprawling "Gnarl!" anthology.



Cliff Pickover says it best: "Using simple algorithms and amazing ingenuity, creative woman develops higher-dimensional cybernetic jellyfish that evolve and may one day escape the confines of their digital life and communicate with humans as peers."

1 comment:

Jonathan said...

If you like this video, you'll be entranced by the flash game flOw -
http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/

In it you control a tiny marine organism that evolves and grows over time as you eat larger and more complex organisms.