"What is a Weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_shares_nature_s_designs
http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_biomimicry_in_action
I was just pondering exactly the same things when I saw this elegant video.
The phrase "Simple and Natural" exists for a reason.
A billion years of solving problems have made these bio inventors experts at room temperature manufacturing. Life makes the most complicated stuff simply and easily.
We can always cross-pollinate the known from "different" fields. For what is unknown in one "field" is common knowledge or practise in another.
As you learn different things from different fields their "intersection" is what will yield hybrid/remixed ideas, techniques and inventions. In fact far from being an "intersection" it will expose the artificial boundaries erected on Nature by the concept of a field. It will reveal the underlying "Bandhuta" (bonds) beneath the apparent differences of a limited mind.
There exist AT LEAST 30 million different life forms which have been field-testing their innovations for last 4 billion years. The lady enumerates at least 12 different areas to look at for "inspiration"/bio-mimicry.
This seems like the scientists and businessman's ultimate paradise! We can rip-off inventions and not have to pay any royalty too!! WoW!!
Yet more sources of patents, inventions, Nobel Prizes and cheaper, best-selling products which can make people Billionaires over-night.
She also cautions that we need to look beyond into the legacy of strip-mining that we're leaving for our off-spring our descendents. Fulfilling our needs while making it 'a sweeter place' for other life is the path of "I'm OK, You're OK" we need to follow.
She warns that the life-forms that didn't choose this path didn't stand the test of Time to tell the tale.
Even parasites slowly adjust and co-operate with their hosts over the long-term to form either benign or symbiotic relations. Given our current adversarial, viral and parasitic relation with the rest of Nature, maybe THERE's a lesson we should learn from first?!!
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See Also:
+ Amazonia Bio-Piracy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CLjLTxK9pY
+ Bio-piracy and Bio-Prospecting : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52yE4HtYRpA
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKK9k3FWRCw
+ Antarctica based Microbial BioProspecting : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wXBoHTjR4c
http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_shares_nature_s_designs
http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_biomimicry_in_action
I was just pondering exactly the same things when I saw this elegant video.
The phrase "Simple and Natural" exists for a reason.
A billion years of solving problems have made these bio inventors experts at room temperature manufacturing. Life makes the most complicated stuff simply and easily.
We can always cross-pollinate the known from "different" fields. For what is unknown in one "field" is common knowledge or practise in another.
As you learn different things from different fields their "intersection" is what will yield hybrid/remixed ideas, techniques and inventions. In fact far from being an "intersection" it will expose the artificial boundaries erected on Nature by the concept of a field. It will reveal the underlying "Bandhuta" (bonds) beneath the apparent differences of a limited mind.
There exist AT LEAST 30 million different life forms which have been field-testing their innovations for last 4 billion years. The lady enumerates at least 12 different areas to look at for "inspiration"/bio-mimicry.
This seems like the scientists and businessman's ultimate paradise! We can rip-off inventions and not have to pay any royalty too!! WoW!!
Yet more sources of patents, inventions, Nobel Prizes and cheaper, best-selling products which can make people Billionaires over-night.
She also cautions that we need to look beyond into the legacy of strip-mining that we're leaving for our off-spring our descendents. Fulfilling our needs while making it 'a sweeter place' for other life is the path of "I'm OK, You're OK" we need to follow.
She warns that the life-forms that didn't choose this path didn't stand the test of Time to tell the tale.
Even parasites slowly adjust and co-operate with their hosts over the long-term to form either benign or symbiotic relations. Given our current adversarial, viral and parasitic relation with the rest of Nature, maybe THERE's a lesson we should learn from first?!!
=========
See Also:
+ Amazonia Bio-Piracy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CLjLTxK9pY
+ Bio-piracy and Bio-Prospecting : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52yE4HtYRpA
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKK9k3FWRCw
+ Antarctica based Microbial BioProspecting : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wXBoHTjR4c
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