Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Food for thought: Swarm theory

While I was at JY's blog, I came across a link to an article titled Swarm Behaviour by Peter Miller, on NationalGeographic.com.

Here's the URL: http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0707/feature5/

A quote from the article:
A single ant or bee isn't smart, but their colonies are. The study of swarm intelligence is providing insights that can help humans manage complex systems, from truck routing to military robots.

It is quite a thoughtful read. I wonder how our everyday behaviours could contribute to the bigger picture? The world can be complex, but it seems possible to use simple strategies to deal with it. Alright, I better qualify that everyone has to do his/ her part for the grand plan of the swarm theory to really work. Now, the question is what are these strategies?

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