[47299] in Cypherpunks
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Tue Jan 16 09:18:06 1996
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:09:42 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Supporting Kocher's feynmanesque cracking of sec systems,
the WSJ reports today on new ways science "seeks answers to
high-tech puzzles by examining the reckless and random ways
of nature."
The cold, digital domain of silicon-based technology is
drawing inspiration from an unlikely source: the living,
breathing realm of nature. Scientists are turning to a
wide variety of natural models -- from the way salmon
migrate to how the human body fights viruses to
evolution -- for new approaches to problem-solving.
"Our view of computer science is rationalistic,
mechanistic. But nature winds up doing things in a way
we'de never think of," one scientist says.
FEY_kry
