r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Natchos09 • 2d ago

Ants making smart maneuver

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u/LennyLloyd 2d ago

There's a novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky in which an intelligent race of large spiders uses ant colonies as computers, eventually breeding them to be microscopic in size and capable of being the hardware for a pre-existing artificial intelligence. Seeing this, this feels even more plausible.

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u/ludlology 2d ago

children of time, such a good book

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u/LennyLloyd 2d ago

Yes, I have no idea why I didn't give the name of the novel in my comment. D'oh.

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u/ludlology 1d ago

haha it happens. have you read the sequel?

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u/LennyLloyd 1d ago

Yeah, it was excellent. Quite creepy.

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u/82CoopDeVille 2d ago

Just added to my reading list

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u/SeaIslandFarmersMkt 2d ago

The computer in T. Pratchett's Unseen University uses ants as well.

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u/LennyLloyd 2d ago

Ah, I didn't know that!

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u/ExileInCle19 2d ago

Bro I was waiting to find the Children of Time comment. What an amazing book this instantly made me think of the ant computers the spiders used.