Read this interesting article at Reason. This is an attempt to understand the technological progress over time. I found the increase in income from the Roman to modern times quite revealing.
ABCNEWS.com : Ocean Sponge May Be Best for Fiber Optics A humble sea sponge has humbled modern technology. Nature never fails to amaze. Read this article to know more about how nature’s fibre optic technology is far better than the man-made one.
I am a MS (Information Science) graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and work for a management consulting firm. When I am not travelling for work, I live in Pittsburgh. My hometown is Bangalore, India and did my college education from New Delhi, India and Chapel Hill, USA.