Investigative Poetry

“The first law of the data site, however, is relatively simple: if complex intelligence is to continue to evolve it must act so there are more possibilities to act next time. This includes both the enrichment of the physical dimensions and the creation of new dimensions. Even people who make many new possibilities, if they use more than they make, are dead ducks. It is a mathematical law.”
—Don Byrd, from the 2018 introductory essay

First published in 1975.