Comments on: Tim O’Reilly Puts Bionics In His World View http://seedround.com/tim-oreilly-puts-bionics-in-his-world-view The Adventures of Startup Life and the Web. Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:32:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: You Mon Tsang http://seedround.com/tim-oreilly-puts-bionics-in-his-world-view/comment-page-1#comment-26 You Mon Tsang Fri, 10 Mar 2006 06:18:47 +0000 http://seedround.com/tim-oreilly-puts-bionics-in-his-world-view/#comment-26 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. 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: nobody http://seedround.com/tim-oreilly-puts-bionics-in-his-world-view/comment-page-1#comment-7 nobody Wed, 08 Mar 2006 22:53:54 +0000 http://seedround.com/tim-oreilly-puts-bionics-in-his-world-view/#comment-7 "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. “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.

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