superorganism

Continuous data flows from it headquarters, its 39 production plants, and its thousands of retailers into a economic superorganism .

Now it is impossible not to see human society as the dominant superorganism on the planet, consuming resources and growing.

Wheeler said the superorganism of the hive "emerges" from the mass of ordinary insect organisms.

Eventually evolution on a ball-bearing planet would mold everything into a single, massive, ultradistributed planetwide superorganism.

They were something else, a loose federation of animals and plants united into an emergent superorganism exhibiting distinctive behavior.

Linked into the superorganism of a smart room, my chair will recognize me when I sit in it, versus someone else.

In fact, the superorganism scenario is in a sense just the cosmic flip side of the diagnosis offered by Carr and other techno-skeptics.

Ants are also ultimately loyal, fighting as a "superorganism" rather than individuals.

Human society as a superorganism is an ancient metaphor.

But at the same time, Wheeler saw "emergent properties" within the superorganism superseding the resident properties of the collective ants.

Finally, in the past century, the planetary superorganism metaphor evolved to include intelligence.

We interact with the collective behavior -- the superorganism, the ecology -- so that the room as a whole becomes an adaptive cocoon.

Superorganism was a buzz word among biologists in the 1920s.

Now, the reason, I think, that this is the case is that human beings assemble themselves and form a kind of superorganism.

But at least the superorganism that seems to be emerging, though in some ways demanding, isn't the totalitarian monster that Orwell feared;

And I personally don't think it's outlandish to talk about us being, increasingly, neurons in a giant superorganism;

Metaman: the merging of humans and machines into a global superorganism