Friday, February 5, 2010

Avatar, Na'vi and networking

Nice film with breath taking animations. But I wonder whether the fanciness of surrounding has degrade the quality of effort. However rather than animations I find the concept of Na’vi creatures’ networking much more interesting. Those creatures have powerful network to which they can upload and down load information from. Rather than artificial wired / wireless network topologies existing on earth their network is via the fibers running though trees and other creatures.Their sacred trees are the backbone of their network and all the creatures including Na’vies and animals are plug and play workstations. All the creatures have a device (similar to USB device) which can be plug to this network or other creatures via corresponding port and facilitate the communication among them. On one hand, it could be seen to earth people that these creatures are machines rather living beings, but still those creatures live with nature unlike to human kind on earth.

I wonder whether Na’vi kind shows the possibility of ‘genetic globalization/ genetic networking’ that may be possible thorough genetic evolution someday.
Selective mutation by mother nature ensures that those features relevant to a species get enhanced and those are unnecessary get depreciated and vanished. Communication on the other hand is an essential for any kind of species for their existence, reproduction, evolvement and even to interact with other species. Hence similar to the way our ancestors and other living beings at early stages of evolution came up and improved their own languages or sounds or gestures to communicate, the evolvement of these methods also be technically possible with genetic evolution. However, human kind has deviate from the natural evolving pattern and pace, and has gone for artificial communication and network topologies. This has generated a world that could have very different if such evolvement happen naturally.

What if someone didn’t invent electricity, vacuum tubes, resistors and finally all digital media? Will us be not linked to each other as we are today via internet? Will we be not able to communicate globally? What I think is if we adhered to the pace of evolution by Mother Nature, she would have found us a way to be networked among each other just like Na` vi creatures do, because nature of genetic evolution is to upgrade towards positive direction and degrade towards negative direction. Hence had we lived with nature and had we let nature to evolve and develop us, entire world could have been networked and globalized genetically rather than digitally.

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