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Biomimicry is an interesting stream of innovation. Basically, scientists and product developers are using concepts from nature to solve problems, partially as a brainstroming exercise, and partially under the hypothesis that solutions shaped by millenia of evolution should work fairly well.

This is another important standards war, though few people mention it. The early entrant, wimax, didn't have the time to gain critical mass, and the latecomer, LTE, seems to have stolen the march. The technologies are  roughly equivalent but - the writer says - LTE is becoming the winner, seemingly because it is endorsed by downstream players (device makers such as Nokia), while wimax is being pushed by upstream ones (component makers such as Intel). This causal relationship is not clear, but nonetheless interesting.

Short article commenting on the role of markets in allowing experimentation, chaos and ultimately innovation... sometimes that planning and government intervention cannot properly achieve. Nice reading.