The Biomimicry Movement
Fountainhead News: June 7, 2017
I was chatting with a reporter from The Information yesterday and was giving him my thoughts on an emerging trend, which we’ve covered ad infinum here, but haven’t really ever come out and stated it.
I told him it reminded me considerably of the end of 2015/beginning of 2016 when AI hit the mainstream. The catalyst was Google’s release of TensorFlow and the incredible increases in ImageNet performance. That’s what led us to invest in NVIDIA as part of The Base Code.
It also led us to write the Self-Learning AI analysis that was one of our most popular but also connected us with Timothy Busbice, the inventor of Biologic Intelligence and was the first step to founding PROME, which led to an AI Award, Plug & Play’s Mobility Batch, the World Economic Forum (coming soon, shhh), and a raft of inbound customer conversations.
Today as we sit squarely in the middle of 2017, we’re seeing the following happen:
- DARPA is calling for researchers to replicate what we’ve done over the next 4 years.
- Biologically inspired clothing is getting produced.
- Artificial photosynthesis systems have been created with 13% efficiency (note: state of the art solar panels are only 25% efficient with leaves much less).
- 60 synthetic biology startups
- Neuromorphic chips for robotics are being developed by a few fabs
- Many of our readers are students and have reached out to me personally telling me they’re studying a combination of biology, computer science, mathematics, and robotics.
There’s a simple reason for this. Nature is efficient. And it works. So why try to reinvent the wheel when we just need to reverse engineer the one right in front of our noses?
Back in the day, Steve Jobs famously said Apple wanted to pick a market in its ascendency and ride that wave to the top with a product.
Let us be one of the first to recognize the next big thing before it hits mainstream so you can be ready for it when it does.
— Sean
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