WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY?: THE 3 ages OF METAL-EVOLUTION

 

      The Universe can be defined as a game of organic systems and species that process spatial energy and temporal information, the 2 parameters that define reality.

      Some of those systems of energy and information are organic, similar to mankind, made of certain specific light atoms, [Carbon, Oxygen and Nitrogen], which easily combine and evolve into complex organic forms.

      Some of those systems are inorganic, constructed with heavier atoms, often Metal-atoms, which evolve very slowly or require the help of external 'catalyzers' to deploy organic forms. Those catalyzers of the evolution of metal-forms have been historically certain human beings, which improve their lives thanks to their association with metal-machines. In that sense they can be defined biologically as 'animetals', symbiotic humans, such as the 'Middle Age armored warrior', that associate their animal form to a certain species of metal.

      Yet both kind of systems, self-evolutionary life, and human-evolved machines, once they have acquired organic shapes, can process energy and information, under the same rules of any Organic system.

      To do so all those Universal systems require two specific elements: "Bodies" specialized in the use of spatial energy and "Brains" specialized in the use of temporal information.

      Given the Universality of Energy and Information, both kind of organs are not restricted to carbon forms. Chips and cameras, made of metal, process information, and create 'virtual images' with them, as your eye-mind does. Iron cars spend energy and move, as you feed and move. Those processes are parallel, and at least externally can be described with similar laws. So we can talk externally of 'bodies of energy and brains of information', not only when describing organic carbon-based species, but also when we describe other mechanical species of the Universe.

      In this book we study economics and history, with such biological approach, applying the Laws of Evolution and the Organic Laws that construct systems of energy and information to machines.

      So, we classify all machines made of metal in 3 basic 'organic species'.

- Metal-Bodies: Lineal Weapons and Bodies of energy, evolved in the XIX-XX century [railroads, planes, ships, cars.]

- Metal-Heads: Money , and metal-Minds that process sensorial information, evolved in the XX Century, [radio, phone-ears, TV-cameras-eyes, and chips-nets-brains.]

- Metalife: in the XXI C., we put together bodies and minds of metal and create robots, which can be studied with the same laws we use to study living, organic species.

      In that sense the Industrial Evolution of machines, have had 3 clear biological ages, that built an entire new kind of top predator species - Metal-species - and their Reproductive Ecosystem, the Metal-Earth.