Nature is the first data scientist

When it comes to problem-solving, humans are adept at creating solutions to a multitude of problems. What if the best solutions were found not by brainstorming but by observing nature?

From the quantum level to the cosmological, nature is a bubbling cauldron of adaptation & development. Seashells & hurricanes, water going down the drain, the way we perspire, all seem to flow or grow in one shape – the golden spiral.

Thinkers, artists & scientists have been fascinated by this elegant shape. Plato called it the building block of the universe. Da Vinci spent 10 years of his life obsessed with it. Bernoulli, the father of fluid dynamics, has the spiral on his gravestone.

What if the universe’s 3.8 billion yrs of R&D offered the blueprint for everything from design to finance? Is it possible that issues & entities that are human-made, from mass transportation, business models, & economic systems could benefit from mimicking nature’s ultimate shape?

The industrial revolution in its quest for mass production improved processing speed & increased horsepower for advancement.

Today, big data & AI may allow us to create a systems-based, financially resilient & regenerative capacity to problem-solving, if we see nature as the first data scientist.