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[..]Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species." Yes? Why is that?" Because it means the end of innovation," Malcolm said. "This idea that the whole world is wired together is mass death. Every biologist knows that small groups in isolation evolve fastest. You put a thousand birds on an ocean island and they'll evolve very fast. You put ten thousand on a big continent, and their evolution slows down. Now, for our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behaviour. We innovate new behaviour to adapt. And everybody on earth knows that innovation only occurs in small groups. Put three people on a committee and they may get something done. Ten people, and it gets harder. Thirty people, and nothing happens. Thirty million, it becomes impossible. That's the effect of mass media - it keeps anything from happening. Mass media swamps diversity. It makes every place the same. Bangkok or Tokyo or London: there's a McDonald's on one corner, a Benetton on another, a Gap across the street. Regional differences vanish. All differences vanish. In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity - our most necessary resource? That's disappearing faster than trees. But we haven't figured that out, so now we're planning to put five billion people together in cyberspace. And it'll freeze the entire species. Everything will stop dead in its tracks. Everyone will think the same thing at the same time. Global uniformity. [..]


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In 1970 he publiMichael Crichtond Five Patients a book which recounts his experiences of hospital practices in the late 1960s at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston Massachusetts. 5 million as well as a substantial percentage of the gross. In 1992 Crichton publiMichael Crichtond the novel Rising Sun an international best-selling crime thriller about a murder in the Los Angeles headquarters of Nakamoto a fictional Japanese corporation.

1 in television film and book sales (with ER Jurassic Park and Disclosure respectively). His literary works are usually based on the action genre and heavily feature technology.

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