It is his belief that both the Net and any economy are organisms, not as a matter of metaphor, but as a matter of fact. An Information Technology Application Government organizations, particularly military organizations, have usually been considered as inefficient and bureaucratic. Reinventing Government initiatives have caused some organizations to break out of the traditional paradigm. One such organization is the Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center in San Diego, California. Until recently, biological organisms were the only type of organisms.
Today there is a new class - digital organisms.
Just as biological organisms eat and reproduce until eaten, so do digital organisms. The major difference between the two is the type of food they eat. Digital organisms are now being used in commercial computer software products to solve complex problems ranging from fingerprint identification, to grading the quality of wood, to retrieving information from a multi-language data base. To date, the Information Ecosystem has been primarily influenced by computer programs that are designed, developed and debugged by humans. With the advent of digital organisms, the Information Ecosystem is entering a new era, the era of self organizing, evolving computer software.