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How did the book come about?
Originally, as a user of information technology, I simply wanted to know in the mid-1980s why this particular branch of technology was growing more rapidly than any other.
By then, I had already written a lot of software for mechanical engineering applications due to my job and witnessed several development phases of the hardware.
To answer this simple question, it took me more than ten years of research and writing to finally complete a book with relatively few pages. It was not effective, but it was appropriate for the complex subject matter.
Result 1997 with Excerpts
When, during my research, I first read the claim that information is created by living beings to resist their own permanent order decay, I was sceptical.
Only after many more writings did I begin to understand that this is precisely what drives the data flood as a whole.
Furthermore, I kept coming across the term "group intelligence" in many papers. At some point I noticed that this term is strangely fuzzy. Later I realised why:
The term lacks concrete references between the actors and their technical tools.
In contrast to this, the living actors and their non-living resources are explicitly distinguished in the term metabrain, which I introduced in Chapter 6.1.
After all, the currently existing non-biological data stores and data strands outside our heads play a decisive role in enabling today's group intelligence to do so much more than it did 100 or 1000 years ago.
