Life is a process that generates information through variability and selection. Information is the essential quality that leads to consciousness and then our goals and ambitions. By examining some of the engineering problems and solutions encountered as life evolved, we can see that we are now at an epic turning point. Information storage and processing is what gives living beings their power and the creation of new external information storage systems is driving a shift in the way that all life on earth is organized. The interaction of our aims and ambitions with these evolutionary developments will lead humans to an extraordinary future.
Jon Beach