Abstract
Biologically inspired approaches to the design of general IT are presently flourishing. Investigating the scientific and historical roots of the tendency will serve to prepare properly for future biomimetic work. This paper explores the genealogy of the contemporary biological influence on science, design and culture in general to determine the merits of the tendency and lessons to learn. It is argued that biomimetics rests on bona fide scientific and technical reasons for the pursuit of dynamic IT, but also on other more external factors, and that biomimetics should differentiate the relevant from the superficial. Furthermore the search for dynamic capacities of IT that mimicking adaptive processes can bring about is put forward as both the history and raison d’être of biomimetics.
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Sørensen, M.H. (2004). The Genealogy of Biomimetics: Half a Century’s Quest for Dynamic IT. In: Ijspeert, A.J., Murata, M., Wakamiya, N. (eds) Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology. BioADIT 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3141. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27835-1_36
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