Since the early nineteenth century, when entomologists first popularized the unique biological and behavioral characteristics of insects, technological innovators and theorists have proposed insects as templates for a wide range of technologies. In Insect Media , Jussi Parikka a…
Insect media: an archaeology of animals and technology
by ebrary, Inc, Parikka, Jussi
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Since the early 19th century, technological innovators and theorists have proposed insects as templates for a wide range of technologies. This text explains how insect forms of social organization - swarms, hives, webs and distributed intelligence - have been used to structure m…
Since the early 19th century, technological innovators and theorists have proposed insects as templates for a wide range of technologies. This text explains how insect forms of social organization - swarms, hives, webs and distributed intelligence - have been used to structure m…
Since the early nineteenth century, when entomologists first popularized the unique biological and behavioral characteristics of insects, technological innovators and theorists have proposed insects as templates for a wide range of technologies. In Insect Media, Jussi Parikka an…
A significant proportion of modern medical technology has been developed through biomimetics, which is biologically inspired by studying pre-existing functioning systems in nature. Typical biomimetically inspired biomaterials include nano-biomaterials, smart biomaterials, hybrid…
