Healthy Organic....Computing?

There is certainly a trend of “organic” these days. Organic foods, which are supposedly healthier to the human body, and has a less impact on the ecosystem. Similarly organic light-emitting diodes, which are seen to be used in television screens and computer flat panels, as well as general room lightings, which draw less power compared to our already power efficient LEDs.
In this move towards “organic”, there is also an innovating technology in the computing world: organic computing. This emerging computing system although still under development is capable of adapting dynamically to the immediate conditions of its environment and has the following self properties:

-Self-organization,
-Self-configuration (auto-configuration),
-Self-optimization (automated optimization),
-Self-healing,
-Self-protection (automated computer security),
-Self-explaining, and
-Context-awareness.

Like the Biologically-inspired computing concept, these computing methods concentrate on connectism, social behaviour, and emergence, while relying heavily on biology, computer science, and mathematic, it gives the system the opportunity to apply simple sets of rules throughout time to eventually create its individual complex behaviour, and in this way, is distinguished from Artificial Intelligence.
The previously mentioned characteristics makes organic computing an attractive potential for businesses in our modern information technology society. With abilities or self-organization and self-configuration and automization, organic computing systems can integrate and control business facilities’ security control, internal maintenance, human assistance, and every other daily aspects that are presently run manually by miscellaneous employees. A self aware and intelligent building administrator can unify all of these unnecessary maintenance functions and reduce the management and administration expenses.
Having an unlimited potential for replacing human labour, organic computing systems can eventually replace and automate aspects of business in areas of customer relations (dealing and solving consumer problems intelligently), supple chain management (maintaining stock, and reordering according to warehouse conditions), and even assisting in top executive decisions (investment consulting, business market prediction).
Many of these technologies for the organic computing can revolutionize and almost completely automate the process of business, and restructure our modern corporate design.
On the other hand, with greater reliance to automatic computing, and complex computer behaviours, there comes a problem of controllability of the system. These self-aware systems must me designed as safe, and trustworthy as possible with strong orientation towards human beings. As these new systems can increasingly take control of business itself, there comes a great risk that small instabilities of the computing system can cause a great loss for a business that over-relys on it. Yet, as our technology advances, it seems more to businesses’ merit for organic computing technology to be developed and incorporated into businesses and society, of course, to an extent.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_food

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_computing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biologically-inspired_computing