This biophilic notion of a living planet--of Gaia--partly converges, oddly enough, with a kind of technophilia that is indigenous to the Internet.
Indeed, the Finns' well-known technophilia--the country has the highest penetration of cell phones in the world, and some 800,000 Finns log onto the Internet at least once a week .
Noted satirist brings 'interplanetary journey' to CU Looking at comic novelist Gary Shteyngart's life and career through a science-fictional prism, he sort of has it all, at least metaphorically: futurism, "time travel," technophilia. He's even an alien. Or as close to it as you can come.
Feb. 15, 2014 - Boulder Daily Camera