In [1] we have shown a strong argument in support of the "Universe as a computer " idea. In the current work, we continue our exposition by showing more arguments that reveal why our Universe is not only "some kind of computer", but also a concrete computational model known as a "cellular automaton".

-the rise of network forms of organization. The information revolution is empowering small forces and formations that can best take advantage of the network form. Some actors, such as transnational terrorists and criminals, are moving to networked designs. For governments and militaries, the challenge will be to develop hybrids in which "all-channel" networks are fitted to flattened hierarchies. The major benefits may accrue in the areas of interagency and interservice cooperation. Since militaries must retain hierarchical command structures at their core, their hybrids should retain--- yet flatten---the residual hierarchy, while allowing dispersed maneuver "nodes" to have direct, all-channel contact with each other, and with the higher command. . Doctrine: An integrated vision in this area should extend across the spectrum of conflict from low to high intensity, and across all services and other agencies. Our vision holds that "swarming" may be the key mode of conflict

We present a scalable internetwork routing architecture, called Nimrod. The Nimrod architecture is designed to accommodate a dynamic internetwork of arbitrary size with heterogeneous service requirements and restrictions and to admit incremental deployment throughout an internetwork. The key to Nimrod's scalability is its ability to represent and manipulate routing-related information at multiple levels of abstraction.

“If you clear a forest, you’d better pray continuously.” (p. 123) Ed Wilson introduced us to Ray in his Future of Life when he quoted generously from her powerful chapter, “Clearcut. ” He elicited a salted peanuts reaction: I wanted more but her book was out of print and I forgot it over the next year. Now, Ray has a second book (Wild Card Quilt) and Ecology of a Cracker Childhood is in paperback. Barnes wanted $37 for the two of them, “Ecology ” alone is easily worth that much. Ray weaves ecology, sociology, and biography: details about longleaf pines and their keystone role for other plants and for the creatures that live among them, the Celtic origins of many Southerners and the migration of fearsome attitudes and customs to the New World, and the heroic character of her grandparents and parents. Through much of the book, Ray speaks to us through the eyes of a child, one who grew up poor in her father's small junkyard. She juxtaposes two portraits, one of the SE Georgia rural ecosystem and one of her Southern family. She works carefully in alternating chapters, sharing mosaic tiles that comprise family and ecosystem. Ecology: Built by Fire Most pine burns easily but not the longleaf that first sinks a taproot and suppresses its vertical growth until after the fire season. It then grows a tough bark and shoots rapidly upward until its terminal buds and first branches are above threats from the next grass fire. The longleaf also spaces itself: light comes down from above to plants scattered among the pines. The Celts were as fire-shaped as the forests they occupied. She reminds us that the English-Scotch Borderlands experienced 700 years of war. Borderlanders were migratory, blood thirsty, clannish, and suspicious of strangers. The New World Southeast gave them room to do what they had done for 700 years: "kick up their heels and wear out their knees. " (p. 82) She has a profound ambivalence about her origins. “It didn’t take many years to realize I