We are the Virus!

Read this nice (eye opener) posting on Raama's blog. It reminded me of words of Agent Smith (an artificial intelligence manifested in the artificial world) in one of my favorite Sci-Fi movies, The Matrix:

I'd like to share a revelation during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure.