The Electronic Hive : Embrace it!

In nature, the Net finds form in, for example, the beehive.
The hive is irredeemably social, unabashedly of many minds,
but it decides as a whole when to swarm and where to move.

A hive possesses an intelligence that none of its parts does.
A single honeybee brain operates with a memory of six days;
the hive as a whole operates with a memory of 3 months,
twice as long as the average bee lives.
Just as a beehive functions as if it were a single sentient organism
so does an electronic hive, made up of millions of buzzing,
dim-witted personal computers, behave like a single organism.
Out of networked parts- whether of insects,neurons,or chips- come learning,
evolution,and life.
Out of a planet-wide swarm of silicon calculators comes an emergent
self-governing intelligence: the Net.
Like the beehive, the Net is controlled by no one; no one is in charge.
The tiny bees in a hive are more or less unaware of their colony,
but their collective hive mind transcends their small bee minds.
As we wire ourselves up into a hivish network, many things will emerge that we,
as mere neurons in the network, don't expect, don't understand, can't control,
or don't even perceive.
That 's the price for any emergent hive mind.