I posted yesterday about the Artificial Life conference in the UK this week and I was surprised about how little the subject seems to have moved on since I was involved a decade ago. One of the things I did back then was to interview a futurologist at BT, Chris Winter. Chris had a tank full of ants in his office and he told me how he was studying them so he could use the ants' method of simple individuals following a small number of simple rules to produce a complex, self-regulatory, self-repairing network.
BBC's second ALife story in two days talks about the same ideas from BT and they don't seem to have got much further either...
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