Don't forget the Borg

Resistance is futile
Mike Berkowitz
Guess? Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Emerson, Tom [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 9:09 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Virtual computing


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> If there were any merits to a distributed computing 
> architecture, certainly some species among the hundreds
> of millions that have existed would have toyed
> with the design at some point, but to the best of our 
> knowledge, none have.

I may be out on a limb here, but I'll agree in that no single individual
member of any species has a "distributed brain" [I think that's what you
were driving at], but what about "hives" -- ants, bees, etc., where the
"hive" as a whole moves with a sense of purpose?  [also known as "mod
mentality"]

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