I am always fascinated by the insert kingdoms... not that I will keep them as pets, in fact, I am scared of most of them =P. However I always find them rather intelligent.
Recently I came across this article from National Geographic and I couldn't help wondering what else have we not discovered from this tiny sized kingdom to make our world more efficient.
Quoted:
"Ants aren't smart, ant colonies are." A colony can solve problems unthinkable for individual ants, such as finding the shortest path to the best food source, allocating workers to different tasks, or defending a territory from neighbors. A individual, ants might be tiny dummies, but as colonies they respond quickly and effectively to their environment. They do it with something called swarm intelligence.
Hmmm... sounded very similar to social computing and all the Web 2.0 'technologies' (well, not exactly the same but hey, that's how del.icio.us works!). Just a note, ants have been doing so for 140 million years.
Another interesting one... from Science - a theoretical biologist, Halloy, has successfully created robot cockroaches to mingle with the real 'peers' and even persuaded many of their insect 'peers' to hide in an unconventional place. With this, scientists speculate that this can be developed into a 'powerful' pest control. Well, as I have said from the beginning, the insert kingdoms are intelligent so we will see if it became reality. Whichever the case, it is interesting to know how inserts think...
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