Reprinted with permission © 2008 TreeTop Technologies
It may seem like science fiction right now, but consider boning up on the concept of organic computing—an emerging idea that could be the next hot initiative for future design of information processing systems.
The concept of AI, or Artificial Intelligence, is nothing new. But what many have in mind for organic computing is something slightly different. The idea is not so much to create computers that actually think—nor is it a way to increase processing power by mimicking an organic brain. Instead, it would be a technology that creates systems that can perform self-organization, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing and self-protection and can respond to dynamic changes in the environment.
Organic computing is probably still a long way from practical reality, even with the rapid rate at which digital processing speed and storage capacity have increased. But then again, how many of us really believed in the 1980s that not only would mobile phones soon fit in our pockets, but they would not long thereafter allow us to search the Internet, take digital photos, play games and more?
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Footnotes: From "View from the TreeTop" Volume 2 Issue 7 July 2008