They are part studentship and part stewardship-studying nature's wellsprings of good ideas, and then protecting them so that they can continue to flow.
This is a ideal relationship between human being and the mother nature. Under studentship, we learn and understand the nature better. When we look out and pursue the best for ourselves, the stewardship comes up and we shall take the responsibili...
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They are part studentship and part stewardship-studying nature's wellsprings of good ideas, and then protecting them so that they can continue to flow.
This is a ideal relationship between human being and the mother nature. Under studentship, we learn and understand the nature better. When we look out and pursue the best for ourselves, the stewardship comes up and we shall take the responsibility to help protect the nature.
Wrapped tightly in our own version of knowledge, we have been unreceptive to the wisdom of the natural world.
Being respectful and listen to the nature, we will find that our knowledge can be growing every second. The real humbleness is seldom found in modern society.
We must also get to know these species as best we can and discover their talents and survival tips, their role in the great web of things.
Brilliant ideas come from the nature and come above.
The trick is to show this hidden likeness to engineers and biologists before they put on their blinders. It takes educating in the estuary-the place where two or more disciplines flow together to make a fertile ideabed.
Over these years in Grad school, I have been seeing a lot of team work from biologists and engineers. More and more engineers have biological eyes and biologists are getting their engineering nerves too. The micro and nano mechanical system serves a good example. It's manufactured by engineers with the application on biological/medical investigations.
Since scale is one of the main things that separates our technologies from nature's, it's important to consider what is appropriate, that is, what is receptive to and acceptive of our habitat.
Scale, what a beautiful thing in labs but when you need to bring from lab to application, it could be very different. What is good for experimenters is to keep scale in mind when designing experiments in labs.
A proper human sound, we may say, is one that allows other sounds to be heard. A properly scaled human economy or technology allows a diversity of other creatures to thrive.-Wendell Berry's Home Economics.
This is suggested to be considered when thinking about applying technology to nature systems. Very fair point.
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