The Big Fungus (moved)

Why a Big Fungus?

Fungi offer rich, evocative, funny metaphors about symbiosis and collaboration in nature, which fit our mission at Rel8 to create a shared, interconnected memory for humans in multiple ways, including:

• Mycelia in the Wood Wide Web
  • Mycelia Exchange Minerals for Sugars
• Leaf-Cutter Ants Can't Digest Leaves. So Why Are They Taking Leaves to Their Nests?
• Mushrooms Externalize Their Digestion
• Fungi are the Principal Decomposers in Ecological Systems
• Mushrooms Are the Fruiting Bodies of Mycelium
• Hyphae Connect
• Fungi Can Be Huge
• The Matsutake's Peculiar Ecosystem
• Mushrooms for Bioremediation
• Magic Mushrooms
• Data as Healthy Soil

Think of The Big Fungus as a layer of assertions and opinions above the Wikipedia, part of Data Is the New Soil.

So how might some of us curate The Big Fungus together? See The Fungus Manifesto.

Of course, we have a fledgling website devoted to The Big Fungus.

A different metaphor for similar reasons: The Betterverse.

Disclaimer: I am not a biologist or mycologist. All errors here are my misinterpretations; all corrections eagerly accepted.