Thursday, January 22, 2004

Do Plants Practice Grid Computing? [Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends]: According to Nature, plants seem to optimize their 'breathing' by conducting simple calculations through a distributed computing scheme. 'Plants appear to 'think', according to US researchers, who say that green plants engage in a form of problem-solving computation.' Very wild. Well worth a read. [The veil between worlds is often far thinner than we imagine.] 10:53:24 PM    comment []  trackback []