MoonFleet has made a nice recompilation of Asimov reference that could apply to our current situation, but has left one out. In the last novel of the foundation, the final project of the robots on his quest to keep humanity safe, is revealed. It is Gaia, a planet that is literally alive. [extraido de la wikipedia] In its course of settlement, the human beings on Gaia, under robotic guidance, not only evolved their ability to form an ongoing group consciousness, but also extended this consciousness to the fauna and flora of the planet itself, even including inanimate matter. As a result the entire planet became a super-organism. To create this, according to the novels, it was needed several thousand years. It is something similar to this what the shaper and ADA has on mind? [embed]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(Foundation_universe)[/embed]