The Invisible Factories: Nature’s technologies and design of artificial innovation
Abstract
Wunderkammern showed her Mirabilia, the rarest natural (naturalia) or human-made things (artificialia). Anthropocene makes a Digital Cabinet of TechWonders that makes it difficult to distinguish them. Nanotechnologies manipulate matter at a microscopic level never reached by human tech and generate molecular creatures with extraordinary properties. But despite this, they still can’t compete with Nature’s sollertiam acting within the Invisible Factories, where cellular communities come to life from inorganic matter. Notwithstanding its extreme designing power, biomimetics has not yet achieved this competence. It will have to listen to lectio naturae for a long time to come in the future.
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