Evolution and Innovation

Evolution and Innovation (just wondered as I was looking at plants in Atlanta, as my friend was driving by)

Survival of the fittest is actually a natural method of testing out what is most creative and suitable to live in that environment. The survival of the fittest...the survival of the most creative that suits the living environment...

Perhaps the way nature 'creates' creativity is something we will refer back when we are stuck in coming up with creativity...something similar to biomimetics, but biomimetics of creativity.

--> But then again, we human will try to override the system and try to accelerate the natural process....and realize that the at the end, the natural process is better.

Biomimicry and Innovation

Day Five

Saw director for CleanTECH cluster group here and also attended Biomimicry Conference today.

Innovators now rely quite a lot on nature's innovation to get 'hints' for their innovations.

(from Wikipedia)
Biomimicry or biomimetics is the examination of nature, its models, systems, processes, and elements to emulate or take inspiration from in order to solve human problems. The term biomimicry and biomimetics come from the Greek words bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate. Other terms often used are bionics, bio-inspiration, and biognosis.

Nature has had millions of years to try out what works the best for them to survive on this planet. Humanities are trying to create something in much much shorter period of time. In that sense, humanities' approach is much more 'directed' whereas the approaches done by nature could be considered as 'evolutionary' or 'shot-gun' as many parameters are tested at once.

I was just going to write..the survival for the fittest for nature, but I guess survival of the fittest also works in humanities too.

Met a lot of interesting people...gotta rest a bit.

16 more days until routinization