Researchers at Georgia Tech in the United States have developed a communications system inspired by the ‘dance’ of honeybees. The big claim behind this new dance-inspired system is that it helps Internet servers to work more efficiently; with up to 25% more efficiency based on tests of real Internet traffic. “The new system reduces the possibility of a web site’s becoming overwhelmed with requests and locking out potential users and customers.”
Professor Craig Tovey, who has studied the efficiency of honeybees,
teamed with University of Oxford Computer Scientist Sunil Nakrani to develop a
virtual ‘dance floor’ of servers that address the problem of servers becoming
overloaded.
When we closely examine nature, we will see not only beauty for our eyes, but
intelligence that can be applied in numerous ways to our lives and societies. If
nature is a master to technology, why could not it be a model of harmony to
human communities and relationships?
In its complex, intelligent and dynamic
order, nature is not only teaching us lessons on material efficiency, but also
on sustainability of life, where mutual co operation replaces sterile and self
centered competition.
