Today is Earth Day and I can not remember when Isaac Asimov, in limits Foundation, refers to the planet Gaia , a planet where everything animal, vegetable and mineral involved in a common consciousness, forming a super working together for the common good.
The concept fascinated me. Was inspired by the Gaia Hypothesis , which is a set of scientific models of the biosphere in which life is postulated that promotes and maintains conditions Gaia hypothesis and the concept of self-regulatory system, which comes from the General Systems Theory. It is mentioned in John's vision: "The universe is synergistic
try to imagine what will be in thirty years, our poor, abused planet, perhaps a world barren and desolate as the desert landscapes of Dune, or the polluted and overpopulated world Asimov, which they all leave, and I was reminded of a sentence somewhere in my memory is attributed to Isaac Asimov: " Reality than fantasy. "