Mushrooms natures internet?

[Heretic.Ape.]

Are mushrooms nature's Internet?Copyright Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Spring 2006

For an organism committed to clean, green (or greenish) growth, you can't do better than mushrooms. In Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Ten Speed Press), mushroom enthusiast Paul Stamets lauds the humble fungus, which he calls "nature's Internet": "Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with informationsharing membranes. These membranes are aware, react to change, and collectively have the long-term health of the host environment in mind." Stamets urges a future of myco-forestry, myco-pesticides, myco-filtration (to remove impurities from ground water), and myco-restoration (to break down and neutralize toxic wastes).
Stamets's main challenge, though, may not be scientific but psychological. Back in 1992, Nature reported the startling discovery of what was thought to be the largest living organism on the planet-an underground fungus stretching some 30 acres in Michigan. Eight months later, when a different team discovered a much larger single organism in Utah, 47,000 interconnected quaking aspen trees, The New York Times published an editorial expressing relief that the largest known living organism was no longer "that creepy giant fungus."

[tayo]

that's interesting... thought it was going to say something like mushrooms keep connecting links in head like the internet can be clicked through, swim would see the connection there.