Word: ecobiologist
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Dates: during 1996-1996
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...meet them sooner than even these visionaries imagine. Within the next few weeks, in Kyoto, Japan, an ecobiologist and radically bottom-up computer theorist named Tom Ray will initiate an open-ended experiment he calls a "digital biodiversity reserve." A single, tiny, self-reproducing program will be loosed into a "virtual Internet" spread among hundreds of computers around the world. If all goes as earlier trial runs suggest, Ray's artificial "organisms" will quickly populate the network and begin to evolve...
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