he online digital environment, TechnoSphere, was launched in 1995 as an Arts Council funded website created by Jane Prophet and Gordon Selley. It has already attracted over a 100,000 users who have created over a million creatures. TechnoSphere is a virtual world’, populated by artificial life forms created by users of the World Wide Web. The digital ecology of the 3D world, which is housed on our server, depends on the participation of an on-line public who accesses the world via the Internet.
TechnoSphere supports many tens of thousands of competing life forms, typically 20,000 creatures are alive at any one time. The proprietary technologies that support the website are scaleable, and can be developed to support a much larger community of creatures. …