For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.

— Seth Lloyd, Move Aside, Sex (2010)

Source: http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_3.html#lloyd

An essay in Edge's 2010 annual question on how the Internet changes thinking.

Topics: learning