The Big Fungus

Why a Big Fungus?

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Fabulous Fungal Metaphors

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

Now a narrative to weave these metaphors:

Think of The Big Fungus as a layer of assertions and opinions above Google and 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.

FungusTech is what we call the code and collaborations we'll need to help The Big Fungus flourish.

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.