“Bionic software” goes back to the 1950’s, and about every 15-20 years it becomes a big fad. OOP was born that way. Right now, we are at the beginning of another big wave of it, with efforts like organic computing and autonomic computing. Outside of those fads, research in applying biological principles to computing, in all its aspects, from low-level principles to social computing, has actually been making slow but steady progress over the last half century.

Well, I’m sorry to tell you that you are a little too late to this particular fad. But your brazen assertion that you have come up with this new paradigm illustrates yet again how intellectually bankrupt the tech community has become: people just don’t give a damn anymore about history or prior art, they just assert whatever comes to their mind and then see what sticks. If you just try enough, something is bound to, isn’t it.

By nobody on 03.08.06 2:53 pm

I make no claims of invention here. Few ideas are genuinely new. I am stating that the time is ripe for a focus on this topic, esp in light of an increase in social applications.

By You Mon Tsang on 03.09.06 10:18 pm