Fruit Flies Making Inroads on Autonomous Computing

Jucius Maximus writes "The configuration of base stations in cell phone networks has always been problematic because you can never predict how many phones will connect to which base station. And sometimes adjacent antennas will use the same frequency leading to dropped calls. Such configuration challenges may have solutions in autonomous computing. An article on C|NET describes how British Telecom is examining the development of fruit flies, hoping that nature has already found the solution to this problem. This technology could also be applied to 'threat-sensing' on computer networks."

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Isn't is curious

[young-earth]

The article quotes the project manager:

"Nature has evolved strategies to cope with dynamic, unpredictable environments,"

which brings up an interesting point. Why is it that when people see an elegant piece of software, they say "what a great design". If a recognizable pattern appears to be coming from a point in space some day they'll say "yippee! intelligence has been found in space!". Yet when incredible things like how fruit flies develop or this are not considered designed? {That's an ATP Synthase animation.}