@Article{bradshaw01a,
  author =	 {Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and Niranjan Suri and Alberto
                  J. Ca\~{n}as and Robert Davis and Kenneth Ford and
                  Robert Hoffman and Renia Jeffers and Thomas
                  Reichherzer },
  title =	 {Terraforming Cyberspace},
  googleid =	 {HIphO8iE9DQJ:scholar.google.com/},
  journal =	 {{IEEE} Computer},
  year =	 2001,
  volume =	 34,
  number =	 7,
  abstract =	 {Cyberspace currently offers a lonely, dangerous, and
                  relatively impoverished environment for software
                  agents, which do not easily sustain rich, long-term,
                  peer-to- peer relationships. No social safety net
                  helps agents when they get stuck or prevents them
                  from setting the network on fire when they go
                  awry. Agents remain cut off from most of the world
                  in which humans operate, and severe practical
                  restrictions limit when and where they can go. The
                  first passerby who finds the power switch can
                  unceremoniously terminate an agent's existence. The
                  authors advocate not only making agents smarter and
                  stronger but also making the environment in which
                  they operate more capable of sustaining various
                  forms of agent life and civilization. As a new kind
                  of environment for human beings, cyberspace is now
                  woefully primitive. Most of our electronically built
                  space is a rat's nest of bewildering pathways of
                  indeterminate destination, much like medieval
                  Rome. Those who are designing and building
                  cyberspace might benefit from the example of the
                  humanist Popes of the Renaissance, who used the
                  cittaideale concepts to produce connectivity and
                  impart legibility to their city's layout. },
  url =		 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/r7048.pdf},
  cluster = 	 {3815820779814226460}
}