Local entropy reduction means entropy will increase on a larger scale.
Just as behind the orderly social life of human beings lies the consumption of astronomical amounts of fuel every hour, the accumulation of billions of years on Earth is vanishing at a staggering speed.
If life had never appeared, this process of entropy increase might have been stretched out to a length of time beyond imagination.
But meteorites brought organic compounds and amino acids; from then on, the primitive terrestrial ecology began to change, and through wave after wave of random chemical reactions, the first life was born.
Then… how did the first life in the cyber world come into being?
After becoming a cyber life form, Richard Knight had pondered this question more than once.
In this data-centered world, only a few decades after humanity first made contact with Cyberspace, the first true artificial intelligence in history was born in the hands of Microtech in 2013.
But was that really the first?
