Hornet
March 7th, 2005, 04:34 AM
Found this about ANts routing:
The decentralised organisation of the ant-hill suits [the] idea that the economy needs no government intervention because the market is self-regulating. [Impossible to close down by RIAA, MPAA or anyone.]
Ant-based communication systems are already in use in the fast-growing world of telephone and online digital networks.
Amazingly, an ant can work out the quickest way from A to B more efficiently than a human boffin with a computer. It bases its behaviour on pheromone trails laid down by its nest-mates.
In the fast lane
So now human communications networks are often based on "virtual pheromone trails".
Myrmecologist Professor Nigel Franks, of the University of Bristol, has introduced the phrase "collective intelligence" to describe ant behaviour. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4319739.stm
With so many universities and the military researching this area I think decentralised anonymous networks are the future.
Hornet :hole :hole :hole
The decentralised organisation of the ant-hill suits [the] idea that the economy needs no government intervention because the market is self-regulating. [Impossible to close down by RIAA, MPAA or anyone.]
Ant-based communication systems are already in use in the fast-growing world of telephone and online digital networks.
Amazingly, an ant can work out the quickest way from A to B more efficiently than a human boffin with a computer. It bases its behaviour on pheromone trails laid down by its nest-mates.
In the fast lane
So now human communications networks are often based on "virtual pheromone trails".
Myrmecologist Professor Nigel Franks, of the University of Bristol, has introduced the phrase "collective intelligence" to describe ant behaviour. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4319739.stm
With so many universities and the military researching this area I think decentralised anonymous networks are the future.
Hornet :hole :hole :hole