The Big Fungus

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 Maitake'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?

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.