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Planetary Scale Information Transmission in the Biosphere and Technosphere: Limits and Evolution
| العنوان: | Planetary Scale Information Transmission in the Biosphere and Technosphere: Limits and Evolution |
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| المؤلفون: | Lingam, Manasvi, Frank, Adam, Balbi, Amedeo |
| المصدر: | Life, Vol. 13, No. 9, 1850 (2023) |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | Astrophysics Physics (Other) Quantitative Biology |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Physics - Physics and Society, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Physics - Biological Physics, Quantitative Biology - Molecular Networks, Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution |
| الوصف: | Information transmission via communication between agents is ubiquitous on Earth, and is a vital facet of living systems. In this paper, we aim to quantify this rate of information transmission associated with Earth's biosphere and technosphere (i.e., a measure of global information flow) by means of a heuristic order-of-magnitude model. By adopting ostensibly conservative values for the salient parameters, we estimate that the global information transmission rate for the biosphere might be $\sim 10^{24}$ bits/s, and that it may perhaps exceed the corresponding rate for the current technosphere by $\sim 9$ orders of magnitude. However, under the equivocal assumption of sustained exponential growth, we find that information transmission in the technosphere can potentially surpass that of the biosphere $\sim 90$ years in the future, reflecting its increasing dominance. Comment: Published in Life; 14 pages; 1 figure |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.3390/life13091850 |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07922 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsarx.2309.07922 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.3390/life13091850 |
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