Hitchhiker's Guide to Biomorphic Software

Kenneth N. Lodding, of NASA, writes a great essay about nature's inspiration for software. Biomorphic software coders uses nature as their muse. It is nature's distributed, decentralized, pattern formation, intelligent behaviour that makes it such a useful model. The essay provides an impetus, a historical context, then delves into the details of design and ends with the author's glimpse into the future.