Metaman is the name given by the author Gregory Stock to the concept of a superorganism comprising mankind and his technology. Stock developed the concept in his 1993 book Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism (ISBN 067170723X).
While many people have had ideas about a global brain, they have tended to suppose that this can be improved or altered by man according to his will. Metaman can be seen as a development that directs mankind's will to its own ends, whether he likes it or not, through the operation of market forces. While it is difficult to think of making a life-form based on metals that can mine its own 'food', it is possible to imagine a superorganism that incorporates men as its 'cells' and entices them to sustain it (communalness), just as our cells interwork to sustain us.
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