We're in the climax forest phase of the tech ecosystem.
- We're in the climax forest phase of the tech ecosystem.
- Late stage.
- A small number of massive trees shading everywhere, preventing anything else from growing.
- What breaks the late-stage?
- Disturbance at multiple scales:
- Individual trees dying and creating light gaps,
- storms taking down patches,
- diseases targeting specific dominants,
- occasionally catastrophic fire. [kg]
- Forests are constantly churning, not waiting for an apocalypse.