Bratton’s The Stack – On Software and Sovereignty outlines a model for planetary computing as ‘accidental megastructure’ with the six layers Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface and User.

But we are already working on the Stack extension: inter-planetary computing and two new levels of the megastructure: Artificial Intelligence and Humanoids/Robots.

Inner-solar system politics will become a new reality.

(GLSL source: Shane)