Unicorns and Could life evolve on the internet - Two Non Stories

This is a low blow by Wired, similar to Yahoo's unicorn story. Don't you hate it when a suggestive title leads you into a blah blah boring disappointing story. Yahoo sometimes does this but quite sad to see Wired doing the same thing. The title should read:

Could your social life evolve on the internet? Answer, Yes - and probably in a number of pretty boring ultimately anti-social ways. Boring!

clipped from blog.wired.com If principles of life are universal, could life emerge on the internet? Er...no. I posed the question to evolutionary dynamicist Martin Nowak of Harvard University, developer of a mathematical model of evolution's origins, the period during which unique chemical structures experienced mutation and selection that guided them toward replication -- and thus to life. "Viruses fulfill replication, mutation and selection -- but people don't consider them to be alive, because they think life has to be made of chemicals," said Irene Chen, a Harvard systems biologist who specializes in early biomolecules.