Planetary Scale Information Transmission in the Biosphere and Technosphere: Limits and Evolution.
biosphere
information transmission
internet
molecular communication
planetary intelligence
technosphere
Journal
Life (Basel, Switzerland)
ISSN: 2075-1729
Titre abrégé: Life (Basel)
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101580444
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
31 Aug 2023
31 Aug 2023
Historique:
received:
19
07
2023
revised:
24
08
2023
accepted:
29
08
2023
medline:
28
9
2023
pubmed:
28
9
2023
entrez:
28
9
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Information transmission via communication between agents is ubiquitous on Earth, and is a vital facet of living systems. In this paper, we aim to quantify this rate of information transmission associated with Earth's biosphere and technosphere (i.e., a measure of global information flow) by means of a heuristic order-of-magnitude model. By adopting ostensibly conservative values for the salient parameters, we estimate that the global information transmission rate for the biosphere might be ∼1024 bits/s, and that it may perhaps exceed the corresponding rate for the current technosphere by ∼9 orders of magnitude. However, under the equivocal assumption of sustained exponential growth, we find that information transmission in the technosphere can potentially surpass that of the biosphere ∼90 years in the future, reflecting its increasing dominance.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37763254
pii: life13091850
doi: 10.3390/life13091850
pmc: PMC10532900
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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